Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3137, located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia. This galaxy, part of a group similar to the Local Group, offers insights into stellar life cycles and galactic dynamics. Hubble's observations contribute to the PHANGS-HST program, which studies star clusters in nearby galaxies using multi-wavelength data from several major observatories.
- ▪NGC 3137 is a spiral galaxy located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia.
- ▪It is part of the NGC 3175 group, which includes two large spiral galaxies and over 500 dwarf galaxy candidates.
- ▪The galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole estimated to be 60 million times the mass of the Sun.
- ▪Hubble observed NGC 3137 as part of program #17502 led by D. Thilker to study star clusters in 55 nearby galaxies.
- ▪The PHANGS-HST program combines Hubble data with observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA.
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