This magnificent galaxy, NGC 2835, the Water Snake, lives near the head of the southern constellation Hydra. Credit: ESA / Hubble and NASA, j. Lee, and the Fangs-HST team. Acknowledgments: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
The twisting pattern created by the multiple spiral arms of the NGC 2835 creates the illusion of the eye. This is an apt description, as this magnificent galaxy, the water snake, lives near the head of the southern constellation Hydra. This spectacular blocked spiral galaxy, more than half its width Milk Ganga, Is brilliantly displayed in this image taken by NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope. However it cannot be seen in this image, a supermassive Black hole Millions of masses of our sun are known in the very center of NGC 2835 in the very center of the structure.
This galaxy was conceived as part of PHANGS-HST, a large galaxy survey with Hubble aimed at studying the connections between cold gas and young stars in different galaxies in the local universe. Within NGC 2835, this cold, ga ense gas forms a large number of young stars in regions of large star formation. Bright blue areas, commonly found in the outer spiral arms of many galaxies, show that near-ultraviolet light is being emitted more strongly, indicating the formation of recent or ongoing stars.
Expecting an image of 100,000 gas clouds and star-forming fields outside our galaxy, the survey hopes to shed light on many of the links between cold gas clouds, star formation and the overall shape and morphology of galaxies. This initiative is in collaboration with the International Attack on Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (Alma) And the European Southern Observatory Very large telescopeNo. Muse Instrument, by the Big Fangs Program (PI: E. Shinner).
