NGC7172 - HST - Potw2213a
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team
Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies approximately 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The lane of dust threading its way across NGC 7172 — which is viewed side-on in this image — is obscuring the luminous heart of the galaxy, making NGC 7172 appear to be nothing more than a normal edge-on spiral galaxy.
When astronomers inspected NGC 7172 across the electromagnetic spectrum they quickly discovered that there was more to it than meets the eye: NGC 7172 is a Seyfert galaxy — a type of galaxy with an intensely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by matter accreting onto a supermassive black hole.
This image combines data from two sets of Hubble observations, both of which were proposed to study nearby active galactic nuclei. The image also combines data from two instruments — Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFCS).
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. J. Rosario, A. Barth
Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
Coordinates Position (RA): 22 2 1.47 Position (Dec): -31° 52' 17.76" Field of view: 2.05 x 2.09 arcminutes Orientation: North is 173.9° left of vertical
Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Optical V 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical V 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Optical I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Infrared H 1.6 μm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3.
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