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NGC 2997, John Bozeman

NGC 2997

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NGC 2997, John Bozeman

NGC 2997

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NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the faint southern constellation of Antlia. This is a grand-design galaxy with a symmetrical, two-armed form. The morphological classification of NGC 2997 is SAB(rs)c, indicating a weakly-barred spiral galaxy (SAB) with an incomplete ring around the bar (rs) and loosely-wound spiral arms (c). It is inclined at an angle of 40° to the line of sight from the Earth, with the major axis aligned along a position angle of 110°. The arms host a series of dusty knots that are star-forming regions being generated through gas compression from density waves. At the core, the arms converge to form a circumnuclear ring with symmetrically-placed hot spots containing super star clusters.

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope MAST Portal. Release date: 2024-03-30

Camera: WFC3
RED - F814W
GREEN - 
BLUE - 

Processed with FITS Liberator, GraXpert, PixInsight and Photoshop 2024.

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NGC 2997, John Bozeman