Alaknanda Galaxy: study
Researchers at National Centre for Radio Astrophysics – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA–TIFR), Pune, have discovered a spiral galaxy and named it as named Alaknanda.
- Alaknanda Galaxy is located about 12 billion light years away and has textbook spiral structure.
- It is named after a Himalayan river Alaknanda and the Hindi word for the Milky Way.
- It is a powerhouse of stellar birth.
- It looks remarkably similar to our own Milky Way.
- It was discovered through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
- Spiral galaxies are twisted collections of stars and gas.
- In a spiral galaxy, the stars, gas, and dust are gathered in spiral arms that spread outward from the galaxy’s center.
