Galaxy located about 55 million light-years from Earth is sister of the Milky Way
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Thursday released a colourful new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1055, an older sister of our Milky Way, that is about 55 million light-years from Earth and is located in the constellation of Cetus (also called "the sea monster" or "the whale").
The photograph, considering ESO's Very huge Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile, shows a colorful stripe of stars, fuel and dust, that is notion to be up to fifteen percent large in diameter than the Milky way.
Spiral galaxies throughout the universe tackle all manner of orientations relative to Earth. As visible from above — or "face-on" — a galaxy's flowing arms and bright middle may be considered in stunning detail, but that orientation makes it difficult to get any feel of a 3-dimensional form, in step with a information release at the ESO's website.
Other galaxies are seen at angles. The tilt begins to reveal the three-dimensional structure, but to fully grasp the overall shape of a spiral galaxy, it must be seen edge-on — like this new image of NGC 1055.
From this view, NGC 1055 seems to lack the whirling hands characteristic of a spiral galaxy. but, it displays abnormal twists in its shape that have been probably caused by an interplay with a big neighbouring galaxy, the ESO said.
The ESO is an intergovernmental astronomy corporation sponsored by means of 16 international locations in Europe and South the usa and hosted in Chile.
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