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IC 1296 is an extremely faint barred spiral galaxy of Hubble-type SBbc in the constellation Lyra in the northern sky. It is estimated to be 238 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 120,000 light-years in diameter. [1] IC 1296 is only 4 arc minutes away from the well-known Ring Nebula in the night sky. [2]
Us Earthlings inhabit a solar system on one of the great spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.The legendary Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting Earth, peered inward and captured a vivid image of stars ...
English: This animation depicts the collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope observations indicate that the two galaxies, pulled together by their mutual gravity, will crash together about 4 billion years from now. Around 6 billion years from now, the two galaxies will merge to form a single galaxy.
The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 2566. ... 26,000 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and 13.4 billion light ...
The James Webb Space Telescope spied new details and mysteries within the chaotic heart of the Milky Way galaxy.
At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way galaxy. Using the Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, Hubble identified Cepheid variables, a standard candle discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt. [7] Comparing their apparent luminosity to their intrinsic luminosity gives their distance from ...
Messier 2 is located within our Milky Way galaxy, and is one of the oldest clusters of stars designated to the Milky Way. Like most globular clusters, M2 is found within the galactic halo, specifically in the southern galactic cap. This places it right below the southern pole of the Milky Way. [14]