Wednesday 15 October 2014

Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo

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Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2014 - This magnificent new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. Captured here are vast streaks of dust, some of which are obscuring the central bulge, which can just be made out in the center of the galaxy. Towards the edges of the galaxy, the scatte ... more


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