The Hubble Space Telescope has another revelation to make. Tucked into a constellation nearly 48 million years from Earth, the Hubble has just shifted its focus to a spiral galaxy. Read more to reveal all about the latest development the Hubble was supposed to get.
In a release by the ESA it had gone on to acknowledge the work of the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy’s structure was revealed with the massive capabilities of two instruments from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
This finely detailed Photo of the Week shows the heart of NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy located about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax.
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The captured image speaks of a barred spiral and Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1097. NGC 1097 has two satellite galaxies. Those are 1097A and NGC 1097B. The larger of the two is NGC 1097A and it is a peculiar elliptical galaxy. It orbits in a span of 42,000 light-years from the center of NGC 1097. The other, NGC 1097B, is a dwarf galaxy.
Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope is a Ritchey Chretein reflector telescope main mirror 2.4 meters. It orbits the Earth about 550 KM above the Earth’s surface. It was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It wasn’t the first space telescope, but it’s one of the largest and most versatile, known as an essential research tool and as a public relations boost to astronomy.
Named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Telescope is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991-2000), the Chandra X-ray Observatory (1999-present), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003- ). 2020). The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) selects Hubble’s targets and processes the resulting data, while the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) pilots the spacecraft.