Markarian Galaxy 1337 Caught by Hubble in the Constellation Virgo

The Markarian Galaxy 1337 was caught by astronomers. They used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The latest photos are very striking of the barred spiral galaxy.

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Hubble Captures Markarian Galaxy 1337 Around 119.5 Million Light Years From Earth

The Markarian Galaxy 1337 or Mrk 1337 for short is an object that has been discovered by astronomers. It is located about 119.5 million light years in the constellation Virgo.

The location of the constellation Virgo stands out in the spring sky, precisely in the northern hemisphere. Will be visible all night in March and April.

To make your search for Virgo easier, you can use hints from the bright star Spica. You do this by following the dipper curve to Arcturus in Bootes, then continuing the line in the same curve.

Then due to the precision effect, the first point of Libra is very close to Virginis. So that it becomes two points in the sky, where the celestial equator crosses the ecliptic.

Armenian Benjamin Markarian, an astrophysicist and his colleagues included Markarian 1337 in their galaxy catalog.

Citing the sci-news page, the object turned out to have a core with an excessive amount of ultraviolet emission. The Markarian 1337 is also known as LEDA 43690 and IRAS 12499-0930. Then included in a small group of spiral galaxies.

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Weak Trunked Spiral Galaxy

Markarian 1337 is a weak barred spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms radiate from the central trunk of gas and stars.

The Hubble astronomers state that bars occur in about half of spiral galaxies. Included is our own Milky Way galaxy.

Barred spiral galaxies have a rod structure with a central shape. Then it consists of a star at its center, gas, and dust. Astronomers can find the trunks of half of all spiral galaxies.

These galaxies are often surrounded by a circle of fainter stars. Most are in globular clusters.

About two -thirds of all the spirals they have observed have additional components in the form of stem -like structures.

Then extending from the central bulge, even reaching the spiral arms. Spiral galaxies form the galaxies in the universe today, along with irregular galaxies.

Most of them are found in low density areas. Then almost never at the center of the galaxy cluster.

A bulge is a large dense group of stars. Astronomers often define it as the excess of starlight over the inward extrapolation of the exponential.

These bulges can be classified using Hubble. Some bulges have similar properties to elliptical galaxies. Then according to estimates, the number of bulges became the place of a supermassive black hole at its center.

In general, these bars will affect the movement of stars and interstellar gas in the galaxy. In addition, it also affects the spiral arm.

The Markarian galaxy 1337 is like our Milky Way, the existence of the solar system has been classified as a barred spiral galaxy.

The elongation of the bar-shaped stars can be observed in about two-thirds of all spiral galaxies. Furthermore their presence can be strong or even weak.

As in the Markarian 1337 galaxy, this is a weak trunk. The presence of rods can sometimes be seen from the X-shaped structure out of the plane.

It will usually have maximum visibility at half the length of the bar in the plane.

Research Mr. 1337

Then the latest images of the Markarian galaxy 1337 are combined from separate exposures. Astronomers get it from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument.

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WFC3 is the last and most advanced instrument of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is especially useful when taking pictures in the visible spectrum.

In addition, WFC3 is able to image astronomical targets over an extra wide wavelength range. It can even do on a wide field of view. The WFC3 is the fourth generation Hubble instrument.

The Hubble camera shot Markarian 1337 at a variety of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths. This results in very clear and detailed images.

The European Space Agency’s Astronomy uses four filters to sample various wavelengths. Then the color results are different for each monochromatic image. It is still related to individual filters.

They turned out to be Adam Riess’s proposal. It has even won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for its contribution to the discovery of accelerating the expansion of the Universe. This was accomplished in collaboration with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt.

Research into the Markarian 1337 galaxy is part of a campaign to increase knowledge about how fast the universe is expanding. (R10/HR-Online)

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