Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

This is the first image of a celestial object taken with the newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The camera was restored to operation during the STS-125 Servicing Mission to upgrade the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 was photographed on 13 June and 8 July 2009, as part of the initial testing and calibration of Hubbles ACS. The galaxy lies up to 90 million light-years away in the north circumpolar constellation Ursa Major.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0910s/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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