Hubble Captures NGC 4698, an Out of Sync Galaxy Spinning Two Ways at Once
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NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope have captured an image of a galaxy that hides an unusual feature. At first glance, NGC 4698 looks like a typical spiral galaxy, but its structure tells a different story, reports Focus. Located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the galaxy has a central region that is oriented in a direction almost perpendicular to the main galactic disk. Unusual spiral galaxy Like our Milky Way, …
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of NGC 4698, a galaxy about 55 million light-years away. What makes this galaxy special: the core rotates perpendicular to the rest of the disk. Astronomers believe that a collision with a smaller galaxy caused this. At first glance, NGC 4698 appears to be a quiet spiral galaxy, […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
Hubble Captures NGC 4698, an Out of Sync Galaxy Spinning Two Ways at Once
Hubble’s new frame of NGC 4698 arrives from 55 million light years out in Virgo, a spiral tucked into the nearest big cluster of more than a thousand galaxies bound by gravity. Brown dust lanes cut through the outer disk and young blue stars light the same curves, yet those arms refuse to spiral into [...]
Record shows elongated galactic bojo with high brightness; inside the core is a supermassive black hole
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