We live in one of these, you know.
Our own Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, much like the one featured in this newly shared image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. What you’re seeing is NGC 691, a spiral galaxy that’s roughly 120 million light-years away.
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.Acknowledgement: M. Zamani
This beautiful image is more than just a snapshot, though An image like this pulls together the details the space telescope is able to discern across multiple wavelengths. Those filtered images are then collected and handed off to a scientifically minded art team that decides which colors best represent each filter.
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