NGC 6000 lies around 102 million light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.

Otherwise called ESO 450-20, IRAS 15467-2914 or LEDA 56145, this spiral nebula is nearly 67,000 light-years throughout.

It was found by the British astronomer John Herschel on May 8, 1834.

Categorized as Seyfert II galaxy, NGC 6000 is the brightest of all the galaxies in the constellation Scorpius.

“NGC 6000 has a radiant yellow center and glittering blue borders,” the Hubble astronomers stated in a declaration.

“The colors show distinctions in the typical ages, masses and temperature levels of the galaxy’s stars.”

“In the heart of the galaxy, the stars tend to be older and smaller sized.”

“Less enormous stars are cooler than more enormous stars, and rather counterintuitively, cooler stars are redder, while hotter stars are bluer.”

“Farther out along NGC 6000’s spiral arms, fantastic star clusters host young, huge stars that appear noticeably blue.”

Hubble’s instruments gathered the information for the brand-new picture of NGC 6000 while surveying the websites of current supernova surges in close-by galaxies.

“NGC 6000 has actually hosted 2 current supernovae: SN 2007ch in 2007 and SN 2010as in 2010,” the astronomers stated.

“We had the ability to recognize the faint radiance of supernovae years after the preliminary surge.”

“These observations assist to constrain the masses of supernova progenitor stars and can show if they had any outstanding buddies.”

“By focusing to the best side of the galaxy’s disk in this image, you might see something else yellow and blue: a set of 4 thin lines.”

“These are an asteroid in our Solar System, which was wandering throughout Hubble’s field of vision as it looked at NGC 6000.”

“The 4 streaks are because of various direct exposures that were tape-recorded one after another with minor stops briefly in between. These were integrated to produce this last image.”

“The colors appear in this manner due to the fact that each direct exposure utilized a filter to gather just extremely particular wavelengths of light, in this case around red and blue.”

“Having these different direct exposures is essential to study and compare stars by their colors– however it likewise makes asteroid trespassers really apparent.”