He NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy IC 4633located about 100 million light years in the constellation of Apus.
This galaxy is notable for its active star formation and contains an active galactic nucleus.
Despite its distance, IC 4633 appears tilted towards Earthproviding astronomers with an exceptional view of its billions of stars.
However, the galaxy's visibility is partially compromised by a large expanse of dark powder located in the lower right third of the image.
This powder is part of the dark nebula of the Chameleon star-forming regionlocated just 500 light years from us in the Milky Way.
The dark cloud covers a large area of the southern sky, obscuring not only the Chameleon constellation, but also affecting adjacent constellations such as Apus.
The interference in the image of IC 4633 comes from the nebula known as MW9 or the Southern Celestial Serpent, east of the Cha I, II and III clouds.
This nebula, classified as a integrated flux nebula (IFN)is a formation of gas and dust that is not found near any bright stars and only receives weak scattered illumination from the stars in the galaxy.
Although the Southern Celestial Serpent It is less luminous than the neighboring nebulae, Hubble has managed to distinguish it clearly, although the image obtained only shows a small fraction of this vast nebula.
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