Credit: NAOJ; Image provided by Masayuki Tanaka
The spiral galaxy NGC 4045, located in the Virgo constellation, displays two distinct spiral arms extending from its bright central nucleus to its outer regions. A faint blue spiral arm stretches to the right, indicating that stars are actively forming in the outer regions of this galaxy.Below NGC 4045 lies another galaxy, NGC 4045 A. Although it appears close enough to be gravitationally interacting with NGC 4045, it is actually a far more distant galaxy aligned along the same line of sight from Earth, and the two galaxies are not physically associated.
Source: Subaru Telescope
