The space telescope “Hubble” has made the so far most detailed recording of the triangle nebula, a road neighboring galaxy to our Milk. The image has 665 million image points (pixels) and is composed of 54 individual images.

the mosaic to be produced, examine the astronomers so-called star-forming regions in the small spiral galaxy, where Gas and dust, new suns, such as the European “Hubble”-center in Garching, Germany, said in Munich.

third-largest galaxy in the local group,

The triangle fog (catalogue numbers M33 and NGC 598) is of the Andromeda galaxy and the milk is the third street on the largest spiral galaxy in the Local group, the galaxy cluster in which the home galaxy of the solar system with the earth. It contains about 40 billion stars, and some of the active star factories.

The galaxy in the constellation of the triangle in the southern sky is about three million light-years from the milky way and to detect under very good conditions of observation with the naked eye as a milky stain.

Video: In the triangle galaxy with active star formation areas. ESA/Hubble/Youtube

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Created: 10.01.2019, 08:59 PM