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publication date:
August 22, 2021 8:26 PM GMT
Date of update: 22 Aug 2021 21:30 GMT
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright image of a spiral galaxy 68 million light years from Earth.
The image was released by NASA and the European Space Agency. This bright image from the space telescope shows a galaxy known as “NGC 1385”, a spiral galaxy located near the constellation “Fornax”.
According to a NASA statement, the image was captured using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, which is often referred to as the back camera due to its reliability and versatility.
This camera was installed in 2009 when the astronauts last visited the Hubble Telescope, and 12 years later the camera is still remarkably productive.
The US space agency “NASA” released the first images taken by the “Hubble” space telescope after resuming full operations, which is a group of different galaxies, including a rare three-armed spiral galaxy.
According to the US agency, the first image shows an object known as ARP-MADORE2115-273, which is two intertwined galaxies 297 million light years from Earth, and NASA wrote in a description of the image: is a system of collision rings due to the frontal merger of two galaxies.
The Hubble Telescope also revealed that the ongoing interaction between galaxies is much more complex, leaving behind a rich web of stars and dusty gas.
In the second image, a galaxy known as ARP-MADORE0002-503 is shown, which is a spiral galaxy 490 million light years from Earth.
“Hubble” resumed scientific operations on July 17, after shutting it down due to a technical failure, after which NASA managed to carry out a “risky” maneuver to convert the telescope into its back-up computer.
The change was made to compensate for a problem with the telescope’s original computer that occurred on June 13 when the computer stopped working, halting scientific data collection.
It should be noted that the “Hubble” telescope, was a joint project between “NASA”, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, to observe the universe for more than three decades, and the telescope was launched in April 1990 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The US space agency is preparing to replace Hubble with the $ 10 billion James Webb telescope, but has recently suffered delays.
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