PHOTO: NGC 2336, A Big, Beautiful Blue Galaxy – NASA
NGC 2336 – NASA recently posted a photo of the quintessential galaxy NGC 2336 via the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The galaxy, as they described on their official website, is a quintessential galaxy. They described it as big, beautiful, and blue
Identified as a barred spiral galaxy, it stretches an immense 200,000 light-years across and is located at about 100 million light-years away in the Camelopardalis constellation in the northern hemisphere.
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The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel in 1876 with the use of a 0.38 meter telescope.
Based on the website, which uplifted the words form the European Space Agency (ESA), it has experienced a a Type-Ia supernova, which is by far the only only observed supernova in the galaxy 111 years after its discovery.
The constellation where it is located Camelopardalis, is the 18th largest constellation in the sky, occupying an area of 757 square degrees. It can be found in NQ2, the second quadrant in the northern hemisphere.
Its name comes from the two Greek words kamēlos, which means ‘camel‘ , and pardalis, which means ‘leopard‘, forming the term that means “camel leopard”, in reference to the giraffes’ long neck like that of camels, and its spots akin to that of leopards.
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