Spiral galaxy NGC 2841, HST image
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Spiral galaxy NGC 2841, HST image
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Science Photo Library
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Spiral galaxy NGC 2841, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image. This galaxy lies around 46 million light years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. NGC 2841 has a weakly active nucleus known as as a low ionisation nuclear emission-line region (LINER). LINERs are characterised by spectral emission lines from weakly ionised or neutral atoms.
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March 6th, 2014
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