A new photo of NGC 4254, or Messier 99, was captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. It is a grand design spiral galaxy, whose spiral arms wrap tightly around the galaxy's center.
The bright spiral arms of NGC 4254 — a grand design spiral galaxy — wrap clearly around the galaxy's center. This new ESO image captures clouds of hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur gas shown in red, blue and orange respectively. The clouds of gas are ionized by newly formed stars.
The golden spiral arms of a distant galaxy sparkle in new images from the European Southern Observatory ., known as NGC 4254 or Messier 99, is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy, which has prominent, well-defined spiral arms that wrap tightly around the galaxy's center.
in Chile, on March 14. The image showcases the galaxy's bright spiral arms in"exquisite detail," according to the statement.The VLT's MUSE instrument combines a wide field of view with a fine spatial sampling and a large simultaneous spectral range. The instrument is of a type called an integral field spectrograph , which allows astronomers to measure the intensity of the light as a function of its color, or wavelength.
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