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Hubble - NGC 1961 - AI Rendered/Upscaled Image
Reconstruction with our artificial intelligence model of the image provided by NASA/ESA. The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its beautiful spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Shimmering blue regions of bright young stars dot the dusty spiral arms that wind around the bright centre of the galaxy.
NGC 1961 is an intermediate spiral galaxy and a type of AGN galaxy, or active galactic nucleus. Intermediate spirals are somewhere between 'barred' and 'unbarred' spiral galaxies, i.e. they do not have a well-defined bar of stars in the centre. AGN galaxies have very bright centres that often far outshine the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light. It is likely that these galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres that emit bright jets and winds that drive their evolution. NGC 1961 is a fairly common type of AGN that emits low-energy charged particles.
The data used to create this image came from two proposals. One studied previously unobserved Arp galaxies, while the other examined the progenitors and explosions of a series of supernovae.
Located about 180 million light years away, NGC 1961 is in the constellation Camelopardalis.
The file is available at 602.22 millions of pixels for download at a resolution of 25000x24089 pixels.
Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Dalcanton (University of Washington)/R. Foley (University of California - Santa Cruz) - Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America). Full reconstruction and enlargement via AI by PipploIMP.
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Hubble - NGC 1961 - AI Rendered/Upscaled Image
Reconstruction with our artificial intelligence model of the image provided by NASA/ESA. The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its beautiful spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Shimmering blue regions of bright young stars dot the dusty spiral arms that wind around the bright centre of the galaxy.
NGC 1961 is an intermediate spiral galaxy and a type of AGN galaxy, or active galactic nucleus. Intermediate spirals are somewhere between 'barred' and 'unbarred' spiral galaxies, i.e. they do not have a well-defined bar of stars in the centre. AGN galaxies have very bright centres that often far outshine the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light. It is likely that these galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres that emit bright jets and winds that drive their evolution. NGC 1961 is a fairly common type of AGN that emits low-energy charged particles.
The data used to create this image came from two proposals. One studied previously unobserved Arp galaxies, while the other examined the progenitors and explosions of a series of supernovae.
Located about 180 million light years away, NGC 1961 is in the constellation Camelopardalis.
The file is available at 602.22 millions of pixels for download at a resolution of 25000x24089 pixels.
Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Dalcanton (University of Washington)/R. Foley (University of California - Santa Cruz) - Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America). Full reconstruction and enlargement via AI by PipploIMP.
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