This stunning image of the Spider Web Galaxy, as captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcases its irregular shape in all its glory, located around 30 million light-years from Earth. It’s classified as UGC 5829 and consists of a large central body of dull-colored stars, with distorted arms around it.
The arms that you can see are spotted with brightly glowing pink areas where stars are forming, while the bluish gas is brighter than the galactic core itself. Two large arms can also be observed flanking the left and right of the body. Smaller streams of stars are emerging from the top.
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The Spider Web Galaxy isn’t recorded in all of the same catalogues — each is necessarily limited in scope — but it is included in the LEDA catalogue as LEDA 2826829. It is evidently simpler to not conflate the dull but distinct names LEDA 31923 and LEDA 2826829, than the fun but easily confused Spider and Spider Web!,” said the European Space Agency.
