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NGC 1433
NGC 1433 is a spiral galaxy located about 32 million light years away. It is classified as a Seyfert galaxy, one with an extremely active, bright core- as bright as our entire galaxy. Seyfert galaxies make up about 10% of known galaxies.
This image shows a mix of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet is particularly interesting to look at in Seyfert galaxies, since it is thought to be emitted from accretion disks around central, supermassive black holes. NGC 1433 also has an interesting spiral structure in the molecular cloud of gas near its center, as well as a jet of material streaming from its central black hole. The jet is only 150 light years long, the smallest outflow observed outside our galaxy.
Image and information from NASA.
Wide-field Spiral Galaxy