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原文:
NGC 134 is probably not the best known spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. Still, the tantalizing island universe is a clearly a telescopic treasure in southern skies. It shares a bright core, clumpy dust lanes, and loosely wrapped spiral arms with spiky foreground stars of the Milky Way and the more diminutive galaxy NGC 131 in this sharp cosmic vista. From a distance of about 60 million light-years, NGC 134 is seen tilted nearly edge-on. It spans some 150,000 light-years, making it even larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. NGC 134’s warped disk and faint extensions give the appearance of past gravitational interactions with neighboring galaxies. Like the much closer and brighter Sculptor galaxy NGC 253, tendrils of dust appear to rise from a galactic disk sprinkled with blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions.
中文翻譯:
在南天中，雖然NGC 134可能不是雕刻家座內最著名的螺旋星系，但這個迷人的孤島宇宙無疑是一個值得觀賞的天文寶藏。它擁有明亮的核心、斑駁的塵埃帶和鬆散纏繞的螺旋臂，並伴隨著前景中來自銀河系的光亮恒星，以及更小的星系NGC 131。在距離約6000萬光年的地方，NGC 134幾乎呈邊緣觀察。它的直徑約為150,000光年，比我們的銀河系還要大。NGC 134的扭曲星盤和微弱的擴展結構，顯示出與鄰近星系的過去引力互動的跡象。和更近且更明亮的雕刻家座星系NGC 253相比，NGC 134的星系盤上似乎飄浮著塵埃觸鬚，並點綴著藍色的星團和粉紅色的恆星形成區域。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
