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Hubble’s close-up of a distant galaxy looks like a sparkly spider web – Mashable
Wow.

We live in one of these, you know.
Our own Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, much like the one featured in this newly shared image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. What you’re seeing is NGC 691, a spiral galaxy that’s roughly 120 million light-years away.
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.Acknowledgement: M. Zamani
This beautiful image is more than just a snapshot, though. Hubble doesn’t operate all on its own. An image like this pulls together the details the space telescope is able…
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