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English: A hungry starburst galaxy
Also known as NGC 4303, this galaxy is roughly 100 000 light-years across, comparable in size to our galaxy, the Milky Way. Both Messier 61 and our home galaxy belong to a group of galaxies known as the Virgo Supercluster in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) — a group of galaxy clusters containing up to 2000 spiral and elliptical galaxies in total. Messier 61 is a type of galaxy known as a starburst galaxy. Starburst galaxies experience an incredibly high rate of star formation, hungrily using up their reservoir of gas in a very short period of time (in astronomical terms). But this is not the only activity going on within the galaxy; deep at its heart there is thought to be a supermassive black hole that is violently spewing out radiation. Despite its inclusion in the Messier Catalogue, Messier 61 was actually discovered by Italian astronomer Barnabus Oriani in 1779. Charles Messier also noticed this galaxy on the very same day as Oriani, but mistook it for a passing comet — the comet of 1779. A version of this image was submitted to the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition by Flickr user Det58. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Det58
Name: Messier 61
Type: • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
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Distance: 55 million light years
Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Ultraviolet U 330 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Infrared I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Optical V 555 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS. |
| Date | Release date: 28 April 2014, 10:00 |
| Source | www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1417a/ http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/potw1417a.tif |
| Author | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Det58 |
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