A stunning image of the “big, beautiful and blue” galaxy GC 2336 was recently captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. But the “quintessential galaxy” is nearly 200,000 light-years across and at a distance of 100 million light-years. In February, Hubble telescope had captured Stingray Nebula. It is to be noted that Hubble captured two images of Stingray Nebula in the last 20 years. The second image was captured in 2020 and in that image the central star of Stingray nebula was seen in its final stages of life.

Source: dna March 08, 2021 03:22 UTC