A lenticular galaxy is a type of galaxy located among elliptical galaxies. Spiral or spiral galaxies The birth of the Saba Galaxy has long been of interest to astronomers. One of the galaxies that is considered an important laboratory is the NGC 4753 galaxy, which is located about 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, and was first discovered by the German astronomer William Herschel, in 1994.
NGC 4753 is a member of the Virgo II Cloud, which consists of about 100 galaxies and many clusters. New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. US and European Space Agency This view shows the clearest view near the edge of NGC 4753 to date. This indicates the remarkable power of Hubble's resolution and reveals the complex dust structure in NGC 4753. Astronomers speculate that the galaxy was likely the result of a merger with a nearby dwarf galaxy about 1,300 million years ago that may have grown larger as a result of the merger event.
NGC 4753's low-density environment and complex structure lead astronomers to believe it may be a model to test theories on. From the birth of the Saba Galaxy, NGC 4753 is also the site of two Type Ia supernovae, which are of great importance in studying the expansion rate of the universe.
Image source: ESA/Hubble and NASA, L. Kelsey