File:Portrait of a Ghostly Galactic Peacock (potw2332a).jpg
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English: The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, this lenticular galaxy is around 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pavo. Pavo — whose name is Latin for peacock — is a constellation in the southern sky and one of four constellations collectively known as the Southern Birds.Lenticular galaxies like NGC 6684 (lenticular means lens-shaped) possess a large disc but lack the prominent spiral arms of galaxies like the Andromeda Galaxy. This leaves them somewhere between elliptical galaxies and spiral galaxies, and lends these galaxies a diffuse, ghostly experience. NGC 6684 also lacks the dark dust lanes that thread through other galaxies, adding to its spectral, insubstantial appearance.The data in this image were captured during a census of the nearby Universe entitled Every Known Nearby Galaxy which aims to observe all galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (32.6 million light-years) that the telescope has not already visited. Before this programme began Hubble had observed roughly 75% of these nearby galaxies, and completing this census will reveal insights into the stars making up a wide variety of galaxies, in a wide variety of environments.[Image Description: A galaxy, large and occupying most of the view from the centre. The whole galaxy is made of smooth, diffuse light. The galaxy is surrounded by a smoky grey halo. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.] |
Date | 7 August 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Portrait of a Ghostly Galactic Peacock |
Author | ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 7 August 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 24.4 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 14:08, 30 July 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:13, 26 May 2023 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:08, 30 July 2023 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:4421df15-1513-9643-b755-5fdd42652ab5 |
Keywords | NGC 6684 |
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IIM version | 4 |