NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 1月24日 07時21分

Meanwhile, 60 million light-years away from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is seen almost perfectly edge on and is a perfect candidate for studying the nature of extraplanar dust structures — the patterns of gas and dust above and below the plane on the galaxy, seen here as brown wisps coming off NGC 4217.

These tentacle-like filaments are visible in the Hubble image only because the contrast with their surroundings is so high. This implies that the structures are denser than their surroundings. The image shows dozens of dust structures some of which reach as far as 7,000 light-years away from the central plane. Typically the structures have a length of about 1,000 light-years and are about 400 light-years in width.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: R. Schoofs

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