On January 15, NASA shared a fascinating photograph of the blocked spiral galaxy of the cosmos, a spiral galaxy known for its central bar-shaped structure, which is composed of a multitude of stars. Taking to its official Instagram hand, the space agency wrote: “At a distance of 67 million light-years, NGC 613 is an amazing example of a spiral bar galaxy. It is easy to distinguish the galaxy as such due to the well-defined central bar and long arms that spiral around the core. ”
According to NASA, the galaxy NGC 613 was first discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Herschel. The galaxy was observed by amateur astronomer Victor Buso while trying out a new camera on a telescope in 2016. A curious point of light caught his eye, which came from a supernova in the southern constellation of the Sculptor, 67 million light-years away. distance, with two stellar nuclei that were emitted separately by a current of dust. Observed later by NASA and ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 613 was named a galaxy blocked by astronomers due to the well-defined center bar and long arms radiating from the core.
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[Barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 was obtained with the FORS1 and FORS2 multi-mode instruments. Credit: ESO]
It evolves in an elliptical galaxy
“As polls show, about two-thirds of spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way galaxy, contain a bar,” NASA said in a statement. The arms of the barred spiral galaxy influence the movements of stars, dust, and gas. Galaxy’s peanut-shaped bars pull the galactic material used to form stars into the nucleus disk, resulting in a lightning explosion. According to the school observer, the blocked spiral galaxy will eventually evolve into an elliptical galaxy. Cosmos lovers were amazed by the unique structure of the spiral galaxy with bars, with an amazing ribbon of stars and gases. “There must be life there in such a vast universe,” one wrote. “Do we know why some galaxies actually come into shape?” Asked another. “A galactic civil war is probably going on somewhere out there,” the third joked.
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