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Galaxy NGC 2525

Galaxy NGC 2525


Date: 01 October 2020
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 2525
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and the SH0ES team, Acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani, CC BY 4.0

Pictured here is the captivating galaxy NGC 2525. Located nearly 70 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is part of the constellation of Puppis in the southern hemisphere. Together with the Carina and the Vela constellations, it makes up an image of the Argo from ancient greek mythology. 

Another kind of monster, a supermassive black hole, lurks at the centre of NGC 2525. Nearly every galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which can range in mass from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. 

Hubble has captured a series of images of NGC2525 as part of one of its major investigations; measuring the expansion rate of the Universe, which can help answer fundamental questions about our Universe's very nature. ESA/Hubble has now published a unique time-lapse of this galaxy and it's fading supernova.

 
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Last Update: 6 October 2020
8-Dec-2024 21:25 UT

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