NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes NGC 2090, an interesting spiral galaxy with a seemingly flaky disc that is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba. More specifically, a flocculent spiral, which means a spiral galaxy boasting a patchy, dusty disc and arms that are flaky or not visible at all.
NGC 2090 can still be considered a very active galaxy, with clusters of star formation at various stages of evolution spread across the disc. Astronomers wanted to examine star formation and the movement of matter in galaxies, making these Hubble observations, taken in October, quite fascinating to say the least.
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A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre which is surrounded by a whirl of dark threads and patches of dust, all atop a luminous disc. Some brighter lanes curving through the disc indicate the galaxy’s spiral arms. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into a dark background where faint, extended patches of stars can be seen, as well as some foreground stars,” said the ESA.
