New photos from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show nearby irregular galaxy UGC 5829, also known as the Spider Galaxy.
This Hubble image shows UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sera. Image credits: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Tully / M. Messa.
UGC 5829 It is located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Serra.
“Although this relatively faint galaxy has not been observed very often, it has the characteristic soubliquet of a spider galaxy,” Hubble astronomers said in a statement.
“Perhaps the distorted galactic arms with glowing tips that form stars remind us of the clawed legs of arachnids.”
“Somewhat confusingly, there is another galaxy known as the Spiderweb galaxy that has a very similar nickname but is otherwise completely separate.”
“Despite the fact that this galaxy is about 300 times further away from Earth than the Spider Galaxy, it has been imaged more extensively.”
“Fortunately, the ability to accurately identify galaxies does not depend on chance names.”
“Rather, known galaxies are recorded in at least one catalog, such as the Uppsala Galaxy Catalog, and are often recorded in multiple catalogs. It has been given a name.”
“This same galaxy has been given several different names in various other catalogs,” they added.
“For example, LEDA 31923 in the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database; MCG+06-24-006 in the Galactic Morphology Catalog; and SDSS J104242.78+342657.3 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog.
“Spiderweb galaxies are not all recorded in the same catalog; each catalog is necessarily limited in scope. However, they are included in the LEDA catalog as LEDA 2826829.”
“It's clearly easier to avoid confusing the boring but unique names LEDA 31923 and LEDA 2826829 than the interesting but easily confused names Spider and Spiderweb.”
The new image of UGC 5829 consists of observations from. Hubble's advanced survey camera (ACS) and wide field camera 3 (WFC3) Found in the near-infrared and optical portions of the spectrum.
This is based on data obtained through four filters. Color is obtained by assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter.
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