NGC2525 - HST - Heic2018b
Pictured here is the captivating galaxy NGC 2525. Located nearly 70 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is part of the constellation of Puppis in the southern hemisphere. Together with the Carina and the Vela constellations, it makes up an image of the Argo from ancient greek mythology.
Another kind of monster, a supermassive black hole, lurks at the centre of NGC 2525. Nearly every galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which can range in mass from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun.
Hubble has captured a series of images of NGC2525 as part of one of its major investigations; measuring the expansion rate of the Universe, which can help answer fundamental questions about our Universe’s very nature. ESA/Hubble has now published a unique time-lapse of this galaxy and it’s fading supernova.
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and the SH0ES team Acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani
Coordinates Position (RA): 8 5 37.75 Position (Dec): -11° 25' 35.74" Field of view: 2.42 x 2.59 arcminutes Orientation: North is 117.2° right of vertical
Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Optical V 555 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Infrared H 1.6 μm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical Long Pass 350 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3.
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NGC 2525NGC 2525 ist eine Balken-Spiralgalaxie mit ausgedehnten Sternentstehungsgebieten vom Hubble-Typ SBc/P im Sternbild Puppis am Südsternhimmel. Sie ist schätzungsweise 62 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt und hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 35.000 Lj. .. weiterlesen