Hubble Space Telescope | Zoom Into the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) @hubblespacetelescope | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
Fly across the local galactic neighborhood to the Triangulum galaxy (M33), a smaller spiral than our Milky Way galaxy. Zoom in first on one of M33's bright regions of star birth, nebula NGC 604, glowing with hot ionized hydrogen gas. The remarkable ability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to resolve millions of individual stars is on display in this pan across M33's dense star field.
Read the press release: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2019/news-2019-01.html
Credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Fly across the local galactic neighborhood to the Triangulum galaxy (M33), a smaller spiral than our Milky Way galaxy. Zoom in first on one of M33's bright regions of star birth, nebula NGC 604, glowing with hot ionized hydrogen gas. The remarkable ability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to resolve millions of individual stars is on display in this pan across M33's dense star field.
Read the press release: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2019/news-2019-01.html
Credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
![The Whirlpool Galaxy: Visible and X-ray Views [UltraHD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u8jGr2WSFD8/hqdefault.jpg "The Whirlpool Galaxy: Visible and X-ray Views [UltraHD]
This sequence uses visible (Hubble) and X-ray (Chandra) imagery to highlight different structures within the Whirlpool galaxy (Messier 51). As seen in visible light, the familiar whirlpool shape is traced out by glowing spiral arms. These arms are composed of billions of stars orbiting about the center of the galaxy over millions of years. The pink color is from hot hydrogen gas that permeates the galaxy and indicates sites of new star formation. Silhouetted in the bright arms are dark lanes of obscuring dust that blocks visible light. The stars farther away from the center orbit more slowly and fall behind, creating the signature spiral winding arm. A massive black hole lies at the galaxy’s center. The black hole can’t be seen directly, but its presence is hinted at by the dense star clusters at the center. A second smaller spiral galaxy can be seen in the upper-right portion of the image. The second image shows the X-ray view, highlighting the very hottest gas at millions of degrees Fahrenheit. The X-rays most closely match the visible pink hot gas in active star-forming regions and are particularly strong near the galactic centers of both galaxies. X-rays are also penetrating obscuring dust.
Video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Image: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)")
