esahubble_opo0314b May 1st, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. These images, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), show traces of spiral structure accompanied by dramatic dust lanes and bright blue regions that mark areas of active star formation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0314b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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