Galaxy Triangle, also known as Messier 33 or NGC 598, the third — largest galaxy in the Local group, which also including the milky Way and Andromeda. It is also known fact that is one of the most distant space object visible to the naked eye. People who looked at him from the Ground, will only see a faint smudge of light, but luckily, humanity did not have the Hubble telescope, which captured it on photo.
The picture was huge — to create it, the researchers glued together 54 photographs. In the end, they came up with a image resolution of 665 million pixels in TIFF weighs 1,67 GB. Those who believe in the power of their computers, can download the original on the website of Hubble, and everyone else is invited to download it in a compressed form and put it on the desktop Wallpaper.
In the frame together not the whole galaxy, but only a plot with a width of 19 400 light years, containing 10-15 million stars. The telescope has managed to capture the entire galaxy because of its large size — 60 000 light years. In General, it is the third largest galaxy — it more than just Andromeda (200 000 light-years) and the milky Way (100,000 light years). Not surprisingly, she has a lot less stars than the others — about 40 billion, whereas in our galaxy has about 250 billion stars.
But Messier 33 total dust and gas from which new stars are formed at a furious pace. According to the astronomer Julianne Dalcanton from the University of Washington in Seattle, the intensity of star formation in it exceeds the rate of star formation in Andromeda 10 times. This conclusion researchers made based on the results of studies 2015.
Scientists believe that Messier 33 joined the Local group relatively recently. Her story was not so violent as in our galaxy, she almost did not participate in galactic collisions and existed somewhere in the side. Perhaps many years later, her “quiet days” will end and she too will be involved in a collision.
In the future, scientists intend to carefully study the processes of star formation. They are particularly interested in the area of NGC 604 with 200 small stars and virtually no surveyed NGC 595.
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