Spiral Galaxy NGC 1097 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO: X-ray

Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO: X-ray

It is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one

and blow strong winds that erode away the nearby gas and dust

Ansae are visible areas of overdensity — they commonly take looping

Bands of subtle colour - yellows

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1097 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO: X-rayCaptured with the MUSE instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT), this image of the distant spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shows a textbook example of a star bursting nuclear ring. Located 45 million light years away from Earth, in the constellation of Fornax, this ring lies at the very centre of its galaxy. It spans only 5,000 light years across, being dwarfed by the full size of its host galaxy, which extends some tens of thousands of light years beyond