Seyfert II galaxy<\/a>, NGC 6000 is the brightest of all the galaxies in the constellation Scorpius.<\/p>\n\u201cNGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts,\u201d the Hubble astronomers said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe colors reflect differences in the average ages, masses and temperatures of the galaxy\u2019s stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the heart of the galaxy, the stars tend to be older and smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLess massive stars are cooler than more massive stars, and somewhat counterintuitively, cooler stars are redder, while hotter stars are bluer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFarther out along NGC 6000\u2019s spiral arms, brilliant star clusters host young, massive stars that appear distinctly blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hubble\u2019s instruments collected the data for the new image of NGC 6000 while surveying the sites of recent supernova explosions in nearby galaxies.<\/p>\n
\u201cNGC 6000 has hosted two recent supernovae: SN 2007ch in 2007 and SN 2010as in 2010,\u201d the astronomers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to discern the faint glow of supernovae years after the initial explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese observations help to constrain the masses of supernova progenitor stars and can indicate if they had any stellar companions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy zooming in to the right side of the galaxy\u2019s disk in this image, you may see something else yellow and blue: a set of four thin lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are an asteroid in our Solar System, which was drifting across Hubble\u2019s field of view as it gazed at NGC 6000.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe four streaks are due to different exposures that were recorded one after another with slight pauses in between. These were combined to create this final image.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe colors appear this way because each exposure used a filter to collect only very specific wavelengths of light, in this case around red and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving these separate exposures is important to study and compare stars by their colors \u2014 but it also makes asteroid interlopers very obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hubble team has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of half of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35811,6797,1745,26627,85,46,3442,35812,141,35813,35814,26630,144,35815],"class_list":{"0":"post-45330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-barred-spiral-galaxy","9":"tag-esa","10":"tag-galaxy","11":"tag-hubble","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-nasa","15":"tag-ngc-6000","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-sn-2007ch","18":"tag-sn-2010as","19":"tag-spiral-galaxy","20":"tag-supernova","21":"tag-type-ii-seyfert-galaxy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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