NASA’s Hubble Telescope snaps RARE Lenticular galaxy
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Despite decades of service and the launch of the latest James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope has not stopped surprising scientists with its cosmic revelations. Recently, NASA's Hubble Telescope shared an image of lenticular galaxy NGC 5283. It contains an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is an extremely bright region at the heart of a galaxy where a supermassive black hole exists. As matter falls into a black hole, it produces a release of energy that emits light throughout the electromagnetic spectrum due to the heating of the dust and gas.What is a Lenticular galaxy? NASA says that it possesses characteristics of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. They share the central bulge and disk features of spiral galaxies, but they lack the spiral arms. Similar to...