The Dusty Starburst Spiral NGC 1365 in Fornax (@HalH75)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: NGC 1365

The Dusty Starburst Spiral NGC 1365 in Fornax, @HalH75

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The Dusty Starburst Spiral NGC 1365 in Fornax

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The Dusty Starburst Spiral NGC 1365 in Fornax

From a distance of 19.57 ± 0.78 Mpc, the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 displays strong streaming motions along its bar that transport gas into a central star-forming ring, resulting in one of the highest rates of star formation (16.9 Msun/ yr) of any “local” galaxy. New JWST observations of this dusty Seyfert II gem show that the prominent yellowish center contains some of the most massive young clusters in the nearby universe. Stars are also forming along the bar outside the ring, apparently triggered by collisions of dust and molecular gas flowing inward along the additional streamers that intersect the prominent dust lane as perpendicular “tributaries.” Not all of the central clusters are young though. Gas clouds flowing down the bar dissipate energy as they collide and eventually accrete onto the inner ring, but stars in that flow aren’t affected by those cloud dynamics. They continue along their ballistic orbits and overshoot the nucleus, producing a population of older clusters outside the far side of the ring. Many of these features can be seen in this image, which was acquired at a plate scale of 0.545 arcsec/px by a 20" AG Optical Systems imaging Dall Kirkham telescope mounted on a Planewave L-500 mount. The cropped scene captured by the employed FLI Proline 16803 CCD camera spans a field-of-view that is 18.96 arcmin on a side. North is up, and East is to the left.

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