Copyright:Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo
原文:
Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342’s light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds, this deep telescopic image traces the galaxy’s obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.
中文翻譯:
在我們的鄰近區域，IC 342是一個大小相似於大型明亮螺旋星系的星系，距離地球僅有1000萬光年，位於長頸鹿座的北部。這個廣闊的島宇宙本應在我們的夜空中顯得格外突出，但由於被蟲蟲般的星星、氣體和塵埃雲遮擋，它隱藏在清晰的視野之外。儘管IC 342的光輝被介入的宇宙雲氣削弱，這幅深邃的望遠鏡影像描繪了星系中的塵埃、藍色星團，以及沿著恆星形成區域螺旋臂發光的粉紅色星雲，這些螺旋臂遠離星系的核心。IC 342可能經歷過一次近期的恆星形成活動，並且足夠接近，有可能對本地星系群及我們的銀河系的演化產生了引力影響。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
