NASA Hubble Space Telescope Snaps A Galaxy Extending its Gorgeous Spiral Arms

A breathtaking image taken recently by the Hubble Space Telescope depicts the structure of a far-off spiral galaxy, extending its gorgeous spiral arms.

The galaxy, known as NGC 1961, is categorized as an active intermediate spiral galaxy (AGN). It can be traced about 180 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis.

Hubble Studies a Spectacular Spiral — In this recently made public image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 1961 unfolds its stunning spiral arms. The dusty spiral arms that wrap around the galaxy's burning center are dotted with glittering, blue regions of young, brilliant stars. The galaxy NGC 1961 is an AGN, or active galactic nucleus, and it has an intermediate spiral shape. Because they lack a clearly defined bar of stars at their centers, intermediate spiral galaxies fall between "barred" and "unbarred" spiral galaxies. At specific wavelengths of light, AGN galaxies have extremely brilliant centers that frequently significantly outshine the rest of the galaxy. NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), R. Foley (University of California - Santa Cruz); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)

Dusty Spiral Arms

In this recently made public image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 1961 unfolds its stunning spiral arms. The dusty spiral arms that wrap around the galaxy's burning core are dotted with glittering, blue regions of young, brilliant stars.

The galaxy NGC 1961 is an AGN or active galactic nucleus, and it has an intermediate spiral shape.

Since they lack a clearly defined bar of stars at their centers, intermediate spiral galaxies fall between "barred" and "unbarred" spiral galaxies, according to NASA.

AGN galaxies have extremely brilliant centers that frequently outshine the rest of the galaxy at specific wavelengths of light.

The galaxy's active nucleus is fueled by the supermassive black hole, which absorbs matter from its surroundings and emits enormous amounts of radiation in the form of brilliant jets and winds.

Low-Energy Charged Particles

According to NASA officials, recent Hubble observations indicate that NGC 1961 is a common form of AGN that releases low-energy charged particles.

NGC 1961 is categorized as an intermediate spiral galaxy because it lacks the typical central star-shaped bar structure that functions as a funnel to draw material from the surrounding accretion disc into the galaxy's core.

On September 14, NASA published a fresh image of NGC in 1961. The agency said claims that the Hubble data used to produce the image was gathered as part of research on Arp galaxies and supernovas.