NASA highlighted an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing an impressive lenticular galaxy, NGC 612, known for its brightness and orange and blue colors.
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Lenticular galaxies possess a central bulge and a disk, much like spiral galaxies, but they lack the characteristic arms. NGC 612 is located in the Sculptor constellation and is easily visible in the southern hemisphere of Earth.
Discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837, the galaxy is approximately 400 million light-years away from Earth and has a mass of around 1.1 trillion times that of the Sun.
The NGC 612 galaxy is also characterized by emitting infrared radiation, making it one of the few known lenticular galaxies to exhibit this condition.
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NGC 612 is classified as a lenticular galaxy, a type that typically contains older stellar populations and little ongoing star formation. Lenticulars have a central bulge and disk like spiral galaxies, but they lack the characteristic arms. pic.twitter.com/y1ptyygsN3
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) October 3, 2023
