A blue swirl River

Realize with the VLT (Very Large Telescope) of ESO, we see the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive curved is about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (The River). NGC 1187 has hosted two supernova detonations during the last thirty years, most recently in 2007

The galaxy NGC 1187 [1] is seen almost face on the new VLT image, which clearly shows the spiral structure. Can be around half dozen prominent spiral arms, each of contains large amounts of gas and dust.