Hubble Just Found a Galaxy Fainter Than the Night Sky

Hubble Just Found a Galaxy Fainter Than the Night Sky

Hubble’s sharp gaze reveals NGC 45’s feathery arms and glowing star-forming regions. Far from an ordinary spiral, it’s a rare low surface brightness galaxy—massive in gas and dark matter but dim in starlight. Stunning View of NGC 45’s Spiral Arms The latest Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week offers a detailed look at the [...]

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stunning Detail of NGC 45's Outer Arm

Astronomers utilizing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured breathtaking new images of sections of the spiral galaxy known as NGC 45. This Hubble image depicts the outer arm of the NGC 45, a spiral galaxy approximately 22 million light-years distant in the Cetus constellation. This color image was generated from individual exposures taken in [...] The post Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stunning Detail of NGC 45’s Outer Arm appeared…

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms In on Outer Arms of NGC 45

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of part of a spiral galaxy called NGC 45. The post Hubble Space Telescope Zooms In on Outer Arms of NGC 45 appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Galaxy NGC 45 in Cetus: Low brightness, High interest

Galaxy NGC 45 in Cetus: Low brightness, High interest | HubbleThis NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope picture zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45. It lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale).The data used to create this portrait were drawn from two complementary observing programs. The first took a broad view of 50 nearby galaxies, leveraging Hubble’s ability to observe lig…