NASA/ESA Hubble House Telescope captured the lazily winding spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5921. Situated roughly 80 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy is very similar to our personal galaxy, containing a distinguished bar.
The galaxy’s spiral arms reside within the constellation Serpens within the northern celestial hemisphere. The Serpens is the one one of many 88 fashionable constellations to include two unconnected areas — Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda. These two areas, whose names imply the Serpent’s Head and the Serpent’s Tail, are separated by Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer.
The scientific examine behind this picture was additionally divided into observations from Hubble’s Huge Subject Digital camera 3 and observations from the ground-based Gemini Observatory. These two observatories collaborated to grasp higher the connection between galaxies like NGC 5921 and the supermassive black holes they comprise.
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