Hubble studies an amazing vortex

MADRID, September 15 (European press) –

NGC 1961 reveals its gorgeous spiral arms in this It was just released by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

The bright blue regions of bright young stars are scattered in the dust Spiral arms wrap around the galaxy’s glowing center.

NGC 1961 is an intermediate spiral and a type of AGN, or active galactic nucleus. Intermediate spirals lie between the “banned” and “unbarred” spiral galaxies, which means that they do not have a well-defined strip of stars in their centers, NASA reports.

AGN galaxies have very bright centers that often outperform the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light. These galaxies likely contain supermassive black holes in their cores that produce bright jets and winds that shape their evolution. NGC 1961 is a fairly common type of AGN that emits low-energy charged particles.

The data used to create this image comes from two monitoring initiatives. One studied previously unobserved Arp galaxies, while the other looked at the predecessors and explosions of a variety of supernovae.

It is located about 180 million light-years awayNGC 1961 is in the constellation Camelopardalis.