The pinkish-brown disk of a spiral galaxy, viewed from head-on and looking like a straight line, stretches across the picture. The center of the galaxy is glowing white and looks spherical, and a white glow radiates outward from it, encompassing the whole galactic disk.

C43 (NGC 7814) – The Little Sombrero Galaxy

This image of Caldwell 43 is a combination of visible and infrared observations captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2006. The observations were taken to assist astronomers in studying the galaxy’s stellar populations, and to help shed light on the evolution of this galaxy and others like it.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Josh Barrington
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Image CreditESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Josh Barrington
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