A spiral galaxy, with two prominent arms that are tightly wound around the brighter core. The arms disperse into a wide halo of stars and dust at their ends, giving the galaxy an oval shape. It is flanked by a number of bright stars in the foreground, each with a little cross over it due to light diffraction, and some distant background galaxies as well.
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Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), N. Bartmann
Music: zero-project - Eden