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Galaxy NGC 134 in Sculptor

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: a-gax01-34001

Image Size 300 DPI: 13 * 13 cm

NGC 134 is a barred spiral with its spiral arms loosely wrapped around a bright, bar-shaped central region. The red features lounging along its spiral arms are glowing clouds of hot gas in which stars are forming, so-called HII regions. The galaxy also shows prominent dark lanes of dust across the disc, obscuring part of the galaxy's starlight. The image is a colour composite based on data obtained with the FORS2 instrument attached to Antu, UT1 of the VLT. NGC 134 is located in the southern constellation Sculptor, about 60 million light-years away from Earth. When the light that was captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) originally left the galaxy, a dramatic episode of mass extinction had led to the disappearance of dinosaurs on Earth.

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - ANTU - ASTRONOMY - BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY - FORS2 - GALAXY - NGC 134 - SCULPTOR - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR - STAR FORMATION - VLT -