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NASA’s Hubble Spies Spiral’s Edge

2026-10-16T12:42:08.000Z

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.

An STS-125 crewmember aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft continue their relative separation on May 19…
Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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