Hubble Space Telescope Blue Spiral Galaxy NGC 1961
There are spiral galaxies with an active supermassive black hole, and then this glittering, blue spiral galaxy that was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Officially called NGC 1961, this intermediate spiral galaxy and active galactic nuclei (AGN) is located 180 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis.


Hubble Space Telescope Blue Spiral Galaxy NGC 1961
What are intermediate spirals? Put simply, they lie between “barred” and “unbarred” spiral galaxies, or in other words, they don’t have a well-defined bar of stars at their centers. AGN galaxies also have very bright centers that typically far outshine the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light. NGC 1961 is a fairly normal AGN that emits low-energy-charged particles.

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The data used to create this image came from two proposals. One studied previously unobserved Arp galaxies, while the other looked at the progenitors and explosions of a variety of supernovae,” said NASA.

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