#UGC 10043

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Spiral from the side by European Space Agency Via Flickr: What kind of astronomical object is this? It doesn’t look quite like the kinds of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters or galaxy clusters which Hubble normally brings us images of. In fact, this is a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043 — we just happen to be seeing it directly from the side! Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. From this point of view, we see the galaxy’s disc as a sharp line through space, overlain with a prominent dust lane. This dust is spread across the spiral arms of UGC 10043, but it looks very thick and cloudy when viewed from the side. You can even see the lights of some active star-forming regions in the arms, shining out from behind the dust. Strikingly, we can also see that the centre of the galaxy sports a glowing, almost egg-shaped ‘bulge’, rising far above and below the disc. All spiral galaxies have a bulge like this one as part of their structure, containing stars that orbit the galactic centre on paths above and below the whirling disc; it’s a feature that isn’t normally obvious in pictures of galaxies. The unusually large size of this bulge compared to the galaxy’s disc is possibly thanks to UGC 10043 siphoning material from a nearby dwarf galaxy. This may also be why the disc is warped, bending up at one end and down at the other. Like most of the full-colour Hubble images released by ESA/Hubble, this image is a composite, made up of several individual snapshots taken by Hubble at different times and capturing different wavelengths of light. You can see the exact images used in the sidebar on this page. A notable aspect of this image is that the two sets of Hubble data used were collected 23 years apart, in 2000 and 2023! Hubble’s longevity doesn’t just afford us the ability to produce new and better images of old targets; it also provides a long-term archive of data which only becomes more and more useful to astronomers. [Image Description: A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disc looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disc in the centre most of the way out to the ends, and the disc glows around that. In the centre a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disc. The tips of the disc are a bit bent. The background is black and mostly empty.] Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel; CC BY 4.0

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Khám phá hình ảnh độc đáo: Thiên hà xoắn ốc qua ống kính của Hubble

Hubble đã chụp ảnh thiên hà xoắn ốc từ góc nhìn độc đáo. Kính viễn vọng Hubble thường mang đến những hình ảnh toàn cảnh đầy ấn tượng về các thiên hà. Tuy nhiên, trong lần quan sát mới đây, Hubble đã ghi lại một góc nhìn hoàn toàn khác về UGC 10043 – một thiên hà xoắn ốc cách Trái Đất khoảng 150 triệu năm ánh sáng trong chòm sao Serpens. Thay vì chụp trực diện, Hubble đã quan sát thiên hà từ cạnh…

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"Hubble Uchwycił Widzianą z Boku Spiralną Galaktykę Zachwycającą Swoimi Kształtami"

UGC 10043: Niecodzienny widok spiralnej galaktyki sfotografowany przez teleskop Hubble’a W najnowszym obrazie udostępnionym przez NASA i ESA, Teleskop Kosmiczny Hubble uwiecznił fascynujące ujęcie galaktyki spiralnej UGC 10043. To, co czyni ten widok wyjątkowym, to nietypowa perspektywa – galaktyka jest widoczna z boku, co powoduje, że jej spiralne ramiona nie są widoczne. UGC 10043 znajduje się…

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Hubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that we see edge-on. This edge-on […] from NASA https://ift.tt/tQNAYuw

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Che tipo di oggetto astronomico è questo? 🤔 Non assomiglia proprio al tipo di galassie, nebulose, ammassi stellari o ammassi di galassie di cui Hubble normalmente ci porta immagini... In realtà, questa è una galassia a spirale, chiamata UGC 10043 - ci capita di vederla direttamente di lato!

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Hubble Spies Peculiar Spiral Galaxy Edge-On

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope of the peculiar, edge-on spiral galaxy UGC 10043. This Hubble image shows UGC 10043, a peculiar spiral galaxy some 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Windhorst / W. Keel. UGC 10043 lies approximately 150 million light-years away from Earth in the…