About 11 million light-years from Earth is a spiral galaxy of magnitude 8.4 called IC 342, but it’s inconspicuous in the sky—because it’s crowded with cosmic gas, dust, and other stars, obscuring the view of telescopes . The Hubble Telescope recently showed a picture of IC 342, which would have been one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, had it not been obscured by massive amounts of interstellar matter.
The IC 342 spiral galaxy, first discovered in 1895, has a special hydrogen ion region (HII) nucleus, a place of high production of stars, thousands of which can form over millions of years.
However, the galaxy’s location is so close to the galactic equator that it is obscured by a lot of dust, making it difficult for amateur or professional astronomers to observe it. The Hubble Space Telescope can, to some extent, peek a little at IC 342, which is obscured by interstellar matter because one of its observation bands is near-infrared.
The Hubble Space Telescope has previously photographed the IC 342 galaxy, which is about 50,000 light-years in diameter. Recently, NASA released a shiny frontal view of IC 342 galaxy, which clearly shows the magnificent spiral arms and the hot gas and stars. core.
(Source of the first image: NASA)
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