In this stunning newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms. Glittering, blue regions of brilliant young stars dot the dusty spiral arms winding around the galaxy’s glowing center. NGC 1961 is classified as an intermediate spiral
. Glittering, blue regions of brilliant young stars dot the dusty spiral arms winding around the galaxy’s glowing center., or active galactic nuclei, type of galaxy. Because they lack a clearly defined bar of stars at their cores, intermediate spiral galaxies fall between “barred” and “unbarred” spiral galaxies. AGN galaxies have very bright centers that frequently far outshine the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light.
The data used to create this image came from two proposals. One studied previously unobserved Arp galaxies , while the other looked at the progenitors and explosions of a variety of
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