Hubble captures a huge galaxy stretching for 200 thousand light years

NGC 2336 is a typical galaxy: big, beautiful and blue. However, there is something special about it. This spiral

the barred galaxy extends over vast200 thousand light years across and located approximately 100 million light years from Earth. The space object is located in the northern constellation Camelopardalis (Giraffe).

Its spiral arms are inhabited by young stars- they are easily distinguished by their bright blue light. In contrast, the redder central part of the galaxy is dominated by older stars - yellow and red.

NGC 2336 was discovered in 1876 by the Germanastronomer Wilhelm Tempel using a 28 cm telescope. The image that Hubble provided is much better than what Tempel would have had. The fact is that Hubble's main mirror is 2.4 meters in diameter. This is almost ten times the size of the telescope Tempel used.

In 1987, a Type Ia supernova occurred in NGC 2336, the only observed supernova in the galaxy since its discovery 111 years earlier.

Recall that a type Ia supernova is a subcategorysupernovae, which in turn are a subcategory of cataclysmic variable stars. A type Ia supernova appears as a result of a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf.

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