The image of C72's galactic center is shown to be inset from a flat spiral galaxy.

C72 Inset Image

At lower left, a ground-based image of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) includes a box showing the region near the galaxy’s core that’s captured in Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) image.

Credits: Ground-based image: European Southern Observatory; Hubble ACS image: NASA, ESA, R. de Jong (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam [AIP]), and G. Illingworth (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)