NGC 972 is a dusty [5] spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Aries, located at an approximate distance of 49.8 Mly [4] from the Milky Way. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel.

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2019年7月5日 · This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972. The orange-pink glow is created as hydrogen gas reacts to the intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars; these bright patches can be seen here amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust.

2019年7月1日 · New generations of stars contribute to — and are also, in turn, influenced by — the broader forces and factors that mould galaxies throughout the Universe, such as gravity, radiation, matter, and dark matter. German-British astronomer William Herschel is credited with the discovery of NGC 972 in 1784.

2019年7月1日 · NGC 972 was discovered on September 11, 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. Bright, colorful pockets of star formation can be seen in the new Hubble image amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust. The orange-pink glow is created as hydrogen reacts to the intense light streaming outwards from nearby protostars.

2019年7月8日 · Around 70 million light-years away, the spiral galaxy NGC 972 appears to be in full bloom. The latest image released from the Hubble Space Telescope captured the bright colors of star formation...

It is a fairly bright magnitude 13.6 galaxy and it spans 3.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 60,000 light years. Our view of this galaxy is about 25 degrees from edge-on. The dust pattern of the inner disk is fascinating. Wide swaths of dark dust lanes flow like ribbons throughout the bright inner star field.

NGC 972 is a Radio Galaxy located in the constellation of Aries in the northern hemisphere. NGC 972's distance from Earth is 54,425,714.75 light years. NGC 972 is called NGC 972 in the New General Catalogue (NGC). This catalogue is a list of deep space objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888 to update John Herschel's earlier work.

We present the results of optical broadband and H imaging studies of the infrared-bright galaxy NGC 972. The broadband images and B / R color map reveal the peculiar morphology and complex dust distribution.

2022年7月2日 · This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows bright, colourful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972.