Hubble Spies an Active Spiral
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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.
IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth.
Classified as a barred spiral galaxy, […]