Recently, researchers at National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA–TIFR), Pune, have discovered a spiral galaxy and named it as named Alaknanda.
About Alaknanda Galaxy:
It is located about 12 billion light years away and has textbook spiral structure.
It is named after a Himalayan river Alaknanda and the Hindi word for the Milky Way.
It is a powerhouse of stellar birth.
It looks remarkably similar to our own Milky Way.
It was discovered through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
What is Spiral Galaxy?
Spiral galaxies are twisted collections of stars and gas.
In a spiral galaxy, the stars, gas, and dust are gathered in spiral arms that spread outward from the galaxy’s center.
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