NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes tilted spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Apus. This galaxy is known for its heavy star-forming activity, as well as hosting an active galactic nucleus at its core.
You can’t see everything in IC 4633 due to a stretch of dark dust. This dark nebula is actually part of the Chamaeleon star-forming region, which lies around 500 light-years away, in a nearby part of the Milky Way galaxy. If you look closer at IC 4633, we see a disc is made up of many tightly wound spiral arms, with small strands of reddish dust, near the center.
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The cloud overlapping IC 4633 lies east of the well-known Cha I, II and III, and has been called MW9 or the South Celestial Serpent. A vast, narrow trail of faint gas that snakes over the southern celestial pole, it’s much more subdued-looking than its neighbors,” said the ESA.
