Just 46 million light years away, NGC 2841 is a massive spiral galaxy, that is bigger than out own Milky Way galaxy. It is in northern constellation of Ursa Major, It has beautiful yellow galactic nucleus.
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Pink areas are new star forming regions, and you can also see young blue stars. This galaxy looks like elliptical galaxy, but this is really a spiral galaxy with its arms are tightly packed, many of the spiral galaxies have sweeping arms, but this galaxy is different.
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NGC 2841 is almost 150,000 light years across, comparing with our own galaxy Milky Way, which is 100,000 light years across. The following image is a composite of space based Hubble Space Telescope (2.4 meter) and ground based Subaru telescope (8.2 meter).
X-ray images from Chandra Telescope shows hot gases extending around the galaxy as a result of stellar explosions of supernova and this expands rapidly. Chandra’s X-ray image of this galaxy NCG 2841 is a direct evidence for it.
Source: NASA Images, Chandra and Subaru Observatory
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