{"id":622205,"date":"2019-06-28T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=622205"},"modified":"2019-06-28T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T08:11:00","slug":"trillions-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=622205","title":{"rendered":"Trillions of stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis\u00a0Hubble Picture of the Week\u00a0shows the\u00a0spiral galaxy\u00a0Messier 98, which is located about 45 million light-years away in the constellation of\u00a0Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). It was discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer\u00a0Pierre M\u00e9chain, a colleague of\u00a0Charles Messier, and is one of the faintest objects in\u00a0Messier\u2019s astronomical catalogue.\n<\/p>\n

\nMessier 98 is estimated to contain about a trillion of stars, and is full of\u00a0cosmic dust\u00a0\u2014 visible here as a web of red-brown stretching across the frame \u2014 and\u00a0hydrogen gas. This abundance of star-forming material means that Messier 98 is producing stellar newborns at a high rate; the galaxy shows the characteristic signs of stars springing to life throughout its bright centre and whirling arms.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image of Messier 98 was taken in 1995 with the\u00a0Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, an instrument that was installed on the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0from 1993 till 2009. These observations were taken in infrared and visible light as part of a study of galaxy cores within the\u00a0Virgo Cluster, and feature a portion of the galaxy near the centre.\n<\/p>\n


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