The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of the galaxy known as NGC 7678, showing off its notoriously bright and beefy arm of stars and gas spiraling up and left from the bottom of its bright core.
Measuring about 115,000 light years wide, NGC 7678 is similar in size to our own Milky Way galaxy, with two main arms that make up its spiral. Located in the Pegasus constellation, it’s roughly 164 million light-years away from us here on Earth.
NGC 7678, seen here in Hubble’s new image, was discovered in 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.
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