Cosmoview Episode 73: Stellar Layers of a Galactic Onion
The symmetrical, onion-like layers of shell galaxy NGC 3923 are showcased in this galaxy-rich image (zoom in here!) taken by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. A nearby, massive galaxy cluster is also captured exhibiting the phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
Credit:Images and Videos:
CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard
CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos
Image Processing:T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab), R. Colombari (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
Music: Zero Project - Beyond Earth (Instrumental)
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2325a |
| Release date: | Sept. 28, 2023, 11:30 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2325 |
| Duration: | 01 m 08 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
| Name: | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope |
| Category: | CTIO |
