The Hubble Telescope, showing the deep expansion of the universe, has once again captured an astonishing phenomenon in outer space. The Flying Observatory has captured a hypnotic object known as galaxy M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy.
The stunning galaxy was captured by the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys, showing beautiful curved arms, pink star-forming regions, and bright blue filaments of star clusters.
M51 appears to be a beautiful spiral galaxy arm with a giant spiral staircase running through space, but this arm is actually a long corridor of stars and gas filled with dust. These arms are especially important in M51 because they are star-forming factories, compressing hydrogen gas and forming new star clusters.
Hubble’s M51 image reveals red, infrared, and hydrogen light in the massive star-forming region. (Image: NASA)
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According to some astronomers, the close encounter with NGC 5195, a small yellow galaxy at the outermost point of one arm, makes the Whirlpool arm highly visible, and the tidal force of this galaxy appears to be pulling on the arm, causing new waves. incident. Star formation. NGC 5195 can be seen clearly passing behind M51 in many Hubble images. He had been floating behind the whirlpool for hundreds of millions of years.
Hubble’s M51 image reveals red, infrared, and hydrogen light in the massive star-forming region, with hot, blue, young, and dark yellow stars.
The galaxy Messier 51 or M51 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1773 and is located 31 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici in 1773 with a magnitude 8.4 and easily visible with small telescopes in May.
The extraordinary image of the Whirlpool Galaxy and its proximity to Earth provides stargazers with an opportunity to examine the structure and star formation processes of classical spiral galaxies.
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