File:NGC 2336-Big-Beautiful and Blue.jpg
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English: NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred spiral galaxy stretches an immense 200 000 light-years across and is located approximately 100 million light years away in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).
Its spiral arms are glittered with young stars, visible in their bright blue light. In contrast, the redder central part of the galaxy is dominated by older stars. NGC 2336 was discovered in 1876 by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, using a 28-centimetre telescope. This Hubble image is so much better than the view Tempel would have had — Hubble’s main mirror is 2.4 metres across, nearly ten times the size of the telescope Tempel used. In 1987, NGC 2336 experienced a Type-Ia supernova, the only observed supernova in the galaxy since its discovery 111 years earlier. |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. AntoniouAcknowledgement: Judy Schmidt |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 1 March 2021 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 22.0 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 15:09, 29 December 2020 |
Date and time of digitizing | 16:51, 26 October 2020 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:09, 29 December 2020 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:a1869714-3317-3343-b99e-f80902797930 |
Keywords | NGC 2336 |
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ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States |
IIM version | 4 |