NASA says its Hubble telescope captured a spiral galaxy as bright as a jewel and 68 million light years from Earth

• NASA has released a “dazzlingly brilliant” photo of a spiral galaxy millions of light years from Earth.

• The galaxy – NGC 1385 – is in the constellation Fornax.

• The name of the constellation is Latin for “oven”.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a “bright” spiral galaxy, located 68 million light years from Earth.

NASA and the European Space Agency released the photo. NASA said in a blog post on Friday that it was showing NGC 1385, a galaxy in the constellation Fornax.

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 – a “state of the art camera” – captured the image, the US space agency said. The camera was installed in 2019 when the astronauts last visited Hubble, he added.

The name Fornax does not come from “an ancient animal or god,” NASA said, but rather comes from the Latin word for oven.

“The constellation was named Fornax by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, a French astronomer born in 1713,” ESA said in the text accompanying the photo.

The agency added: “Lacaille named 14 of the 88 constellations that we still recognize today. He seems to have had a penchant for naming the constellations after scientific instruments, notably Atlia (the air pump), Norma ( the ruler or the square) and Telescope (the telescope). “

The photo was the latest in a long line of beautiful photos captured by cameras aboard the Hubble Space Telescope during its three decades of observing the cosmos.

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