NASAHubble How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 💙

  

🔭 Our @NASAHubble Space Telescope captured this view of a galaxy a casual 100 million light-years away. NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy, which stretches 200,000 light-years across. It was originally discovered in 1876 by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, using a 0.28-meter (11 inch) telescope. It’s safe to say this Hubble image is so much better than the view Tempel would have had.

 

✨ Pictured here, NGC 2336’s spiral arms glitter with young stars, visible in their bright blue light. In contrast, the redder central part of the galaxy is dominated by older stars.

 

Credit: @European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt