Tags: Galaxy.
NGC 1232 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.It is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust in spiral arms rotating about the center. Open clusters containing bright blue stars are sprinkled along these spiral arms with dark lanes of dense interstellar dust between. Less visible are dim normal stars and interstellar gas producing such high mass that they dominate the dynamics of the inner galaxy.
