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Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the center of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region, it spans 100 thousand light-years or so, making it about the size of our own Milky Way. M96, also known as NGC 3368, is known to be about 35 million light-years distant and a dominant member of the Leo I galaxy group. The featured image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason for M96’s asymmetry is unclear — it could have arisen from gravitational interactions with other Leo I group galaxies, but the lack of an intra-group diffuse glow seems to indicate few recent interactions. Galaxies far in the background can be found by examining the edges of the picture. Explore your Universe: Random APOD Generator
中文翻譯:
在這幅色彩繽紛且詳細的圖像中，塵埃帶似乎環繞著梅西耶96（Messier 96）的核心，展現出這個美麗島宇宙的壯觀。梅西耶96同時被稱為NGC 3368，屬於螺旋星系，直徑約為100,000光年，與我們的銀河系相若。梅西耶96距離地球約3500萬光年，是獅子座I星系團的主導成員。這幅圖像是由哈勃太空望遠鏡拍攝的。
至於梅西耶96不對稱的原因尚不清楚，可能是由於與其他獅子座I星系團星系的引力相互作用所致，但缺乏團內的擴散光輝似乎表明最近的相互作用不多。在圖像的邊緣可以找到遙遠的星系。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
