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It's those stars that lend it a tuft-like appearance, which led astronomers to categorize it as a so-called "flocculent" (or fluffy) spiral galaxy. [See the new NGC 3521 galaxy photo ] ...
This recent picture of spiral galaxy NGC 3521, snapped through the lens of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope, captures in stunning detail a flocculent galaxy’s most ...
A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the ...
A full version of the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 1546, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. On the left is another galaxy, and edge-on disk galaxy in the background.
Millions of bright, young, blue stars are shining in the spiral, feather-like arms. NGC 2775, located in the constellation Cancer, has a spiral full of young, blue stars. Skip Navigation ...
This particular galaxy is notable for its delicate spiral arms, which are feather-like. In astronomical terms, these wavy arms are referred to as “flocculent,” meaning woolly or fluffy.
The spiral galaxy, called NGC 2841, lies in the constellation Ursa Major, about 46 million light-years from Earth.Hubble's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), took the photo, in ...
Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy , though researchers continue to investigate its exact ...
Millions of bright, young, blue stars are shining in the spiral, feather-like arms. NGC 2775, located in the constellation Cancer, has a spiral full of young, blue stars. Skip Navigation ...
Millions of bright, young, blue stars are shining in the spiral, feather-like arms. NGC 2775, located in the constellation Cancer, has a spiral full of young, blue stars. Skip Navigation.
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