NGC 3370
This Hubble Space Telescope image is graceful spiral galaxy NGC 3370, also nicknamed The Silverado Galaxy, is 98 million light years away in the constellation Leo. It doesn’t have well defined spiral arms but more a intricate kind of structure, with it’s arms blending into each other. The outskirts are studded with blue regions of young star clusters, contrasting with it’s small yellow core. In November 1994 a massive star blew itself apart in this galaxy, outshining the billions of others. This exploding heavy weight star was a type 1 supernova (SN1994ae), which was one of the nearest and best studied supernova to Earth. This class of supernovae are usually associated with galaxies much further away. This image of NGC 3370 is set against a backdrop of numerous more distant galaxies, where every patch, smudge, or dot, no matter how small is an entire system of billions of suns.
