The American Aerospace Agency (NASA) has announced a stunning snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC4826 in the constellation Hau Phat.
The new close-up image captured by the Wide-Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope clearly shows a huge band of dark gas surrounding the core of NGC4826, a feature that makes it nicknamed the Galaxy or Black Eye. Devil’s Eye.
Color combinations are produced from separate exposures captured in the three “visible, near infrared and ultraviolet” regions of the spectrum. Astronomers used 5 filters to sample different wavelengths of light and then synthesize them to give the most spectacular view of the galaxy NGC4826.
NGC4826 is located about 17 million light years from Earth and is less than half the diameter of our Milky Way. Since its discovery in 1779, this spiral galaxy has generated great interest from astronomers due to the strange movement of the dust-gas bands within it.
“The gases in the outer and inner regions of the galaxy NGC4826 are spinning in opposite directions, which could be linked to a recent merger event. New stars are forming in inter-band collisions. Dust,” NASA said .
Astronomers explain that NGC4826 could have collided and merged with another gas-rich satellite galaxy, or been accelerated by giant clouds of gas and dust from the interstellar medium.
