Astronomy Picture of the Day
Hidden Galaxy IC 342
Image credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF
Explanation about this:
A Similar in size to large and the bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a distant of 10 million light-years in the long-necked, northern constellation Camel-opardalis. A sprawling (i.e. a large area of land covered with buildings which have been added at different times so that it looks untidy) island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a Famous galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed (a quick idea or understanding of what something is like this biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous) through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed by intervening (happening between two times or between other events or activities) cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy's own obscuring (Two new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window) dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.
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