Hubble Views the Lights of a Galactic Bar
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 collected the data in May 2024 as part of an observing program that studied a number of galaxies. All of the observations used the same range of filters: partially transparent materials that allow only very specific wavelengths of light to pass through.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker
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Hubble Views the Lights of a Galactic Bar
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 collected the data in May 2024 as part of an observing program that studied a number of galaxies. All of the observations used the same range of filters: partially transparent materials that allow only very specific wavelengths of light to pass through.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker
#NASAMarshall #NASA #astrophysics #NASAChandra #NASA #galaxy
Read more about the Chandra X-ray Observatory