#ngc 2976

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The M81 Group // Jeff Ridder

Included are Bode's Galaxy (M81, center), the Cigar Galaxy (M82, left), NGC 3077 (bottom), and NGC 2976 (upper right).

[nightowldelta]

4 galaxies in one picture. Unfortunately because it's getting more colder, I couldn't do longer exposures, but I'm gonna find a way to make sure my camera equipment can handle the lower temps so the lens won't fog up so quick (or at all)

[radiantheaven]

Galaxy NGC 2976

This picture shows the inner region of NGC 2976, located roughly 11 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Despite the lack of well-defined arms visible in this image, NGC 2976 is a spiral galaxy.

[chibinotan]

End of Stars Birth

[quiltofstars]

Some galaxies and Integrated Flux Nebulae // Bogdan Vuk

Galaxies include: Bode’s Galaxy (M81, center), the Cigar Galaxy (M82, left), NGC 2976 (upper right), and NGC 3077 (bottom center)

[quiltofstars]

M81 (Bode’s Galaxy) and Friends: Cigar Galaxy (M82, right), NGC 3077 (top), and NGC 2976 (bottom left) // Chris Bailey

[retrofutureground]

Yerkes Observatory, Spiral galaxy (NGC 2976) in the constellation Ursa Major, 10-12-1912.

Lantern slide; 5.2 x 6.7 cm

[galactic-centre]

"NGC 2976 does not look like a typical spiral galaxy, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows.

In this view of the oddball galaxy's inner region, there are no obvious spiral arms. Dusty filaments running through the disc show no clear spiral structure. A raucous interaction with a neighbouring group of hefty galaxies stripped away some gas and funneled the rest to the galaxy's inner region, fueling star birth about 500 million years ago. At the same time, the galaxy's outer regions stopped making stars because the gas ran out. Now, the inner disc is almost out of gas as new stars burst to life, shrinking the star-formation region to a small area of about 5,000 light-years around the core."

Credit:

NASA, ESA, and J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington, Seattle)