梅西耶66特写
(原标题: Messier 66 Close Up)
2024-06-13
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巨大而美丽的螺旋星系梅西耶66距离我们只有3500万光年。这个美丽的宇宙岛直径约10万光年，大小与银河系相似。这张哈勃太空望远镜的特写照片横跨了银河系核心周围约3万光年宽的区域。它显示了星系的圆盘戏剧性地向我们的视线倾斜。在它明亮的核心周围，可能是一个超大质量黑洞的家园，模糊了尘埃带和年轻的蓝色星团，沿着点缀着粉红色恒星形成区域的螺旋臂扫过。梅西耶66，也被称为NGC 3627，是引力相互作用的狮子座三联体中三个星系中最亮的一个。
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Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. The gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about 30,000 light-years wide around the galactic core. It shows the galaxy's disk dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Surrounding its bright core, the likely home of a supermassive black hole, obscuring dust lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with the tell-tale glow of pinkish star forming regions. Messier 66, also known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the gravitationally interacting Leo Triplet.