In this photo of the ALMA radio telescope, it looks like a sleeping snake curled up in a ring… In reality, this object is from deep space — or, to be more precise, the spiral galaxy NGC 1087.
The Milky Way and NGC 1087 galaxy have jumpers — only NGC 1087 galaxy has a very small one when compared with other similar spiral galaxies. A distinctive feature of the galaxy NGC 1087 is its extremely small core. Astronomers and scientists are still unknown, they are puzzling over what this similar structural feature of the galaxy is connected with.
The ALMA image is a combination of photographs, they are taken at different wavelengths. The red color corresponds to clouds of cold molecular gas that forms stars. The bluish areas in the background are clusters of older, already formed luminaries. They were photographed by VLT.
