Spitzer Telescope Reveals Hidden Galaxies

Maffei 2 is a galaxy that emit infrared rays. Unfortunately, this galaxy could barely be seen with normal optical telescopes. Because the thick dust clouds in the Milky Way galaxy obstruct our views up to 99.5 percent for the view that galaxy.However, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope managed to penetrate the dust clouds to show the appearance of the Milky Way galaxy beauty.Is Paolo Maffei, the first astronomer who discovered the existence of galaxies Maffei and Maffei 2 when they discover a mysterious spot on the photographic plates in 1968 and infra red. Just four months later he identify the strange object as a galaxy, which is now using his name.However, it was found Maffei galaxies with infrared astronomy while still very young. Astronomers need a lot of new-found technological innovation for decades and then to allow them to study objects like this are not clear in detail.For information, most of the other galaxies that have a size such as Maffei 2 itself has been successfully introduced over the past century. But as this galaxy is one tightly hidden behind dust that is in our own galaxy, he did not get into the famous celestial catalog compiled by Charles Messier in the 18th last.The photos are successfully captured by the Spitzer also succeeded in showing that Maffei 2 has an unusual structure. An example is the thick line in the middle and asymmetric spiral arms of galaxies that explains why it has "star explosion" at the core.As is known, the dramatic explosion of this star formation occurs when a large amount of dust and gas is pushed to the center of the galaxy. Generally by the gravitational interactions that form the subject of a spiral structure memalang.

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