The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 taken by Hubble

November 18, 2009: The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat disk of stars, dust, and gas. What’s striking in the image is a ghostly “X” pattern of stars. This natural-color photo was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys on January 15, 2006.

 

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