Stars and Spiral Galaxy NGC 1964 PopWallet+ canvas birthing many stars within its

birthing many stars within its clouds of cold hydrogen

000 light-years away in the Crux constellation

The image is based on data obtained through four different filters (R

sited in the harsh environment of Chile’s Atacama Desert

It points perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy and is about 20 light years long but only one-hundredth that size in width

Stars and Spiral Galaxy NGC 1964 PopWallet+ canvas birthing many stars within itsThis spectacular spiral galaxy, known as NGC 1964, resides approximately 70 million light years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC 1964 has a bright and dense core. This core sits within a mottled oval disc, which is itself encircled by distinct spiral arms speckled with bright starry regions. The brilliant centre of the galaxy caught the eye of the astronomer William Herschel on the night of 20 November 1784, leading to the galaxys