{"id":7261,"date":"2025-08-18T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:23:07","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-captures-new-image-of-ngc-2835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7261\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope Captures New Image of NGC 2835"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NASA has released a new image snapped by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2835.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/enlarge13\/image_14143e-NGC-2835.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105972\" class=\"wp-image-105972 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_14143-NGC-2835.jpg\" alt=\"This Hubble image shows NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy some 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ R. Chandar \/ J. Lee \/ PHANGS-HST Team.\" width=\"580\" height=\"593\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-105972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Hubble image shows NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy some 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ R. Chandar \/ J. Lee \/ PHANGS-HST Team.<\/p>\n<p>NGC 2835 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located some 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydra.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise known as ESO 564-35, LEDA 26259 and UGCA 157, this galaxy is about 65,000 light-years across, just over half the size of our own Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>NGC 2835 was discovered by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on April 13, 1884.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxy is the foremost member of the NGC 2835 group, a small cluster of galaxies that also includes ESO 497-035 and ESO 565-001.<\/p>\n<p>At its center, NGC 2835 harbors a supermassive black hole with a mass between 3 and 10 million solar masses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA previous Hubble image of this galaxy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/hubble-face-on-spiral-galaxy-ngc-2835-08843.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">released<\/a> in 2020,\u201d the Hubble astronomers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you see anything different between today\u2019s image of NGC 2835 and the previously released versions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, NGC 2835 looks quite similar in all of these images, with spiral arms dotted with young blue stars sweeping around an oval-shaped center, where older stars reside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new image differs from previously released images because it incorporates new data from Hubble that captures a specific wavelength of red light called H-alpha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regions that are bright in H-alpha emission can be seen along NGC 2835\u2019s spiral arms, where dozens of bright pink nebulae appear like flowers in bloom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are interested in H-alpha light because it signals the presence of several different types of nebulae that arise during different stages of a star\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewborn massive stars create nebulae called H II regions that are particularly brilliant sources of H-alpha light, while dying stars can leave behind supernova remnants or planetary nebulae that can also be identified by their H-alpha emission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy using Hubble\u2019s sensitive instruments to survey 19 nearby galaxies, we aim to identify more than 50,000 nebulae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese observations will help to explain how stars affect their birth neighborhoods through intense starlight and winds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA has released a new image snapped by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the nearby spiral galaxy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,6145,7443,7444,7445,7446,19,7447,17,1024,7448,133,7449],"class_list":{"0":"post-7261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-esa","10":"tag-galaxy","11":"tag-h-alpha","12":"tag-hii-region","13":"tag-hubble","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-intermediate-spiral-galaxy","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-nasa","18":"tag-ngc-2835","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-spiral-galaxy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}