... These were supplemented by images through special filters that allow through only the light from ionised hydrogen or oxygen gas and highlight the glowing clouds in the galaxy s spiralarms. ...
... Named so because of the loosely wound spiral-shape arms that can be seen wrapping around the bright galaxy centre. ... The spiralarms in this picture are highlighted by a bright pattern of blue young stars, glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes ...
... This galaxy is inclined by 32 degrees and, contrary to most barred spirals, has many arms that give it a tentacular appearance. ... M 66 is the largest of the three. Its spiralarms appear distorted and displaced above the main plane of the galaxy. ...
... Huge numbers of the galaxyтАЩs component stars are visible across the entire image and much detail can be seen in the red and pink star-forming clouds of dust and gas that mark out the galaxyтАЩs ragged spiralarms. ...
... Huge numbers of the galaxyтАЩs component stars are visible across the entire image and much detail can be seen in the red and pink star-forming clouds of dust and gas that mark out the galaxyтАЩs ragged spiralarms. ...
... Huge numbers of the galaxyтАЩs component stars are visible across the entire image and much detail can be seen in the red and pink star-forming clouds of dust and gas that mark out the galaxyтАЩs ragged spiralarms. ...
... The VLT image contains a wealth of details, all the way from faint images of individual stars to stellar clusters and nebulae of gas and dust, superimposed on the diffuse background of the spiralarms in this galaxy. ...
... This galaxy is inclined by 32 degrees and, contrary to most barred spirals, has many arms that give it a tentacular appearance. ... M 66 is the largest of the three. Its spiralarms appear distorted and displaced above the main plane of the galaxy. ...