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A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly-shining center, its broad spiral arms, and the faint halo around its disk, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and thick strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disk.

Spiral Galaxy NGC 691

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail. This galaxy is a member of the NGC 691 galaxy group named after it, which features a group of gravitationally bound galaxies that lie about 120 million light-years from Earth.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; Acknowledgement: M. Zamani
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