August 15, 2014 The Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor Image Credit: NASA & ESA The Comet Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a little more mass than our Milky Way galaxy, located 3.2 billion light-years away from Earth, within the galaxy cluster Abell 2667, in the small southern constellation of Sculptor. It was [continue reading]
July 8, 2014 NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor Image Credit & Copyright: ESO NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy that lies around 6.07 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Sculptor, while it is receding from us at about 144 kilometers per second. It is some 47 thousand light-years across, [continue reading]
October 18, 2013 NGC 7793, an unbarred spiral galaxy in Sculptor Image Credit: ESO NGC 7793 (sometimes called Bond’s Galaxy) is an unbarred spiral galaxy of some 34,000 light-years across, located about 12.7 million light-years away from Earth in the small southern constellation Sculptor. It is receding form us at roughly 230 kilometers per second. [continue reading]
October 7, 2013 NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio (http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com) NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy that lies around 6.07 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Sculptor, while it is receding from us at about 144 kilometers per second. It is some 47 thousand [continue reading]