Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7217
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NGC 7217, John Bozeman
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NGC 7217

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NGC 7217

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NGC 7217 is a gas-poor system whose main features are the presence of several rings of stars concentric to its nucleus: three main ones –the outermost one being of the most prominent and the one that features most of the gas and star formation of this galaxy – plus several others inside the innermost one discovered with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope; a feature that suggests NGC 7217's central regions have suffered several starbursts. There is also a very large and massive spheroid that extends beyond its disk. Other noteworthy features this galaxy has are the presence of a number of stars rotating in the opposite direction around the galaxy's center to most of them and two distinct stellar populations: one of intermediate age on its innermost regions and a younger, metal-poor version on its outermost ones. It lies 50 million light years from Earth.

Data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Color Mapped:

Red - r
Green - g
Blue - g

Processed with FITS Liberator, PixInsight and Photoshop 2023.

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NGC 7217, John Bozeman