Galaxy NGC 2787 - A3 Size Photo Print

This is a borderless Space print called "Galaxy NGC 2787".

The print has been made on A3 Size (420 x 297 mm, 16.5 x 11.7") matte photo paper. Both the inks and the paper are of archival quality and the paper has a weight of 102gsm.

This is not a glossy print, its a 1440 DPI photo quality matte print.

It is a nice print, and it looks really good when displayed in a clip frame.

Postage on this print is only £1.40 for second class post, and all prints are shipped in a sturdy cardboard tube.

About this image:

Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of galaxy NGC 2787 in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image created by the Hubble Heritage Team.

In astronomer Edwin Hubble's galaxy classification scheme, NGC 2787 is classified as an SB0, a barred lenticular galaxy. These lens-shaped galaxies show little or no evidence of the grand spiral arms that occur in their more photogenic cousins, though NGC 2787 does sport a faint bar, not apparent in this image.

Also visible in the Heritage image are about a dozen globular clusters hovering around NGC 2787. What appear to be stars are, in fact, gravitationally bound families of 100,000's of ancient stars orbiting the center of NGC 2787.

NGC 2787 lies roughly 24 million light-years (7.4 megaparsecs) from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. Data was collected with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in January 1999. This Heritage image was made by combining light from blue, green and infrared filters from the 1999 dataset.