Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Good photography depends on a good positioning.
Discovery News published this week this fortunate picture of a spiral galaxy, which is fortuitously positioned edge-on relative to the view from the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
Officially known as NGC 2683, was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by astronomers at the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Fla. NASA says the side-on view gives scientists:
"a great opportunity to see the delicate dusty lanes of the spiral arms silhouetted against the golden haze of the galaxy’s core."
The picture, released Friday, also shows bright clusters of young blue stars scattered throughout the disc, showing the galaxy's star-forming regions. from here
The picture, released Friday, also shows bright clusters of young blue stars scattered throughout the disc, showing the galaxy's star-forming regions. from here
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