NASA·APOD每日天文一圖2022.5.26 [超高清]
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Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed.?
從地球觀看壯麗的旋渦星系NGC 4565。明亮的NGC 4565也因其狹窄的輪廓而被稱為針狀星系,它是許多望遠鏡北天巡游的一站,位于黯淡但整潔的科馬座貝雷尼西亞。這張清晰多彩的圖像揭示了星系的長方體,膨脹的中心核心被模糊的塵埃帶切割,這些塵埃帶系在NGC 4565的薄星系面上。NGC 4565本身距離約4000萬光年,跨度約10萬光年。用小型望遠鏡很容易就能看到,天文愛好者認為NGC 4565是梅西耶錯過的一件杰出的天體杰作。