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🌀 Spiral galaxy Arp 184 or NGC 1961 dazzles in today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Piciture of the Week. At about 190 million light-years away from Earth, this galaxyhas a single, star-speckled spiral arm that appears to stretch toward us.

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A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its centre is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disc of material surrounds this, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disc. A large spiral arm extends from the disc towards the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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NGC 604, seen here by #NASAWebb, contains more than 200 of the hottest, most massive types of stars. All of these stars are in the early stages of their lives, giving astronomers and opportunity to study their development: bit.ly/3FkTe5g 🔭 🧪
At the center of the image is a nebula on the black background of space. The nebula is comprised of clumpy, red, filamentary clouds. At the center-right of the red clouds is a large cavernous bubble, and at the center of the bubble there is an opaque blueish glow with speckles of stars. At the edges of the bubble, the dust is white. There are several other smaller cavernous bubbles at the top of the nebula, including two tiny cavities at the top center of the image. There are thousands of stars that fill the surrounding area outside the nebula, most of them are yellow or white. At 11 o’clock and 6 o’clock there are extremely bright stars with 8 diffraction spikes. There are also some smaller, red stars and a few disk-shaped galaxies scattered across the image.
April 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM