Image of the Day: "The Snow White" Galaxy (VIDEO)
January 06, 2010
We named awesome NGC 4921 shown in all it's glory in the video below, the "Snow White" Galaxy because it belongs to an unusual class of galaxies in which star formation is nearly absent, giving it a haunting translucency. Also dubbed the "anemic" galaxy due the low rate of new star formation, it is located in the Coma Cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices about 320 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy has a nucleus with a bar structure that is surrounded by a distinct ring of dust that contains recently formed, hot blue stars. The outer part consists of unusually smooth, poorly distinguished spiral arms. In May 4, 1959, a supernova explosion was observed "quite far from the center" of the galaxy.
"...a distinct ring of dust that contains *recently formed*, hot blue stars."
Recently formed? Yeh, like 320 million light-years ago!
Ah...I remember it like it was just yesterday...
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Posted by: lucy | January 09, 2010 at 11:27 PM
WOW 320 million LY? Thanks to the Hubble Telescope! Images from our Universe just takes my breath away...
Thanks for sharing :)
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