NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a rare lenticular galaxy that has a spiral-elliptical shape. The 1947 NGC galaxy was discovered 200 years ago and is only visible from the southern hemisphere in the constellation Dorado (the dolphin). According to the press release, the galaxy has lost most of its star-forming material and is now decaying with time.
The Hubble Telescope captured the 1947 NGC galaxy
NASA shared the photo with the caption, “Well as it is, not many new stars will be born here. The galaxy in this Hubble image, NGC 1947, is mostly of the material that creates stars is lost and decays with time. “The 1947 NGC galaxy is 40 million light-years away from Earth and shows off its structure by looking back at the gas disk and dust left by millions of stars. In the image shared by NASA, the thin remnants of the galaxy’s spiral arms can still be made out in the thin stretched strands of circulating dark gas. Look at the picture.
The space agency reported that the 1947 NGC galaxy was discovered nearly 200 years ago by James Dunlop, a Scottish astronomer who studied space from Australia. The 1947 NGC is only visible from the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Dorado. Since it was shared, the photo has garnered more than 1 lakh likes and a ton of comments gathered from netizens.
Hubble with NASA NGC 2336 Galaxy
Meanwhile, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope had a stunning image of the NGC 2336 “big, beautiful and blue” galaxy. The NASA space agency had shared the image on Instagram and have also shared some interesting facts about. The spiraling armed galaxy is nearly 200,000 light-years across and at a distance of 100 million light-years away in the northern constellation Camelopardalis (the Giraffe). Look at the picture.