NGC 3190 Tapestry Size:80" x 68" In this combined image

In this combined image

As can be seen in the image

The blue color represents cool hydrogen gas seen in radio waves by the Very Large Array near Socorro

respectively) on December 16-18

It belongs to the same group as its even more obscured galactic neighbor

NGC 3190 Tapestry Size:80" x 68" In this combined imageThe beautiful edge on spiral galaxy NGC 3190 with tightly wound arms and a warped shape that makes it resemble a gigantic potato crisp, as seen by ESO's Very Large Telescope. Supernova SN 2002bo is found in between the 'V' of the dust lanes in the south western part of NGC 3190. SN 2002cv is obscured by a large amount of dust and is therefore not visible. Its position is however indicated on the above image. This colour composite is based on images