How at home

How at home

Two centuries ago, William Herschel managed to find an object at a distance of 30 million light years. This is an NGC 2500. This is a special type - a spiral with a jumper, whose thin arms diverge from the bright elongated core. Located in the constellation Lynx.

Jumper spirals are a common phenomenon, since 2/3 of spiral galaxies (like ours) exhibit rods in the centers. They resemble the brightest maternity hospitals, where new stars appear, and funnels - active galactic nuclei.

NGC 2500 continues to actively create new stars, although the process is not uniform. The upper part of the galaxy contains much more areas of stellar birth (in it the sleeves are more clearly visible).

There is another interesting relationship with our galaxy. The Milky Way, Andromeda and the Triangle are members of the Local Group. NGC 2500 repeats this scenario, but with its neighbors (NGC 2537, NGC 2541, NGC 2552 and NGC 2481).

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