Science Vision Exhibition and Planetarium

Collaboration of
PARIJAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
&
SCIENCE VISION EXHIBITION AND PLANETARIUM

विद्यालक्ष्मीमा विज्ञान प्रदर्शनी, विद्यार्थीमा खुसी - Ujyaalo Khabar दमक, पुस १४ केही समयअघि व्यवस्थापन परिवर्तन भएको झापाको दमक ४ स्थित कृष्णमन्दिरमा रहेको विद्यालक्ष्मी सेकेन्डर.....

Event

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 October 15

NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

Explanation: About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our own Milky Way. Seen nearly face-on, its bright core and colorful central disk give way to remarkably faint, bluish spiral arms. The extensive arms sweep well over 100 thousand light-years from the galaxy's center. At the lower right in this sharp, telescopic galaxy portrait the main spiral arm seems to encounter a small, fuzzy elliptical companion galaxy interacting with enormous NGC 289. Of course spiky stars are in the foreground of the scene. They lie within the Milky Way toward the southern constellation Sculptor.