Zooming in on NGC 4993

A fulldome visualization that zooms in on lenticular galaxy NGC 4993, located about 140 million light-years away. A circle marks GW170817, the source of a gravitational wave observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors on 17 August 2017.

Credit:

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos

About the Video

Id:NGC4993-zoom
Release date:March 26, 2025, 11:17 a.m.
Duration:29 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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