Wallpaper author:
Bernard Miller
17 Mar 2023
NGC 1512
This is an image of NGC 1512. It is a spiral galaxy about 38 million light years away in the constellation Horologium. The galaxy displays a double ring structure, with a (nuclear) ring around the galactic nucleus and an (inner) further out in the main disk. The galaxy hosts an extended UV disc with at least 200 clusters with recent star formation activity.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 1512
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