Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope; Image Assembly, Processing, & Copyright: Robert Gendler
Explanation: Does spiral galaxy NGC 2683 have a bar across its center?
Being so nearly like our own barred Milky Way
Galaxy, one might guess it has. Being so nearly edge-on, however, it is hard to tell.
Either way, this gorgeous island universe,
cataloged as NGC 2683, lies
a mere 20 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the Cat
(Lynx). NGC 2683 is
seen nearly edge-on in this cosmic
vista combining data and images from the ground-based Subaru telescope and
the space-based Hubble Space
Telescope. More distant galaxies
are seen scattered in the background. Blended light from a large population of
old yellowish stars forms the remarkably bright galactic
core. Starlight silhouettes the dust lanes along winding spiral arms, dotted
with the telltale blue glow of young star clusters
in this
galaxy's star forming regions.
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