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Credit & Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz
Explanation:
Found in far southern skies, deep within the boundaries of the
constellation
Dorado,
NGC 1947 is some 40 million light-years away.
In silhouette against starlight, obscuring lanes of cosmic dust
thread across the peculiar galaxy's bright central regions.
Unlike the rotation of stars, gas, and dust tracing the arms of
spiral galaxies, the motions of dust and gas don't follow the motions of stars
in NGC 1947 though.
Their more complicated
disconnected motion suggest this galaxy's
visible threads of dust and gas
may have come from a donor galaxy, accreted by NGC 1947 during
the last 3 billion years or so of the peculiar galaxy's evolution.
With spiky foreground Milky Way stars and
even more distant background galaxies scattered through the frame,
this sharp Hubble image
spans about 25,000 light-years near the center of NGC 1947.
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- APOD: 2024 December 18 Á NGC 660: Polar Ring Galaxy
- Stellar Streams in the Local Universe
- APOD: 2024 April 15 Á The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb
- APOD: 2024 March 20 Á The Eyes in Markarians Galaxy Chain
- APOD: 2023 August 2 Á M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind
- In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster
- Comet Leonard and the Whale Galaxy