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Robert Z. Pearlman

From near to far, from here to there, Hubble sees galaxies everywhere | Space photo of the day for May 22, 2025

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, called HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles the foreground elliptical galaxy SDSS J020941.27+001558.4. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri, L. Marchetti, J. Lowenthal)

The red arc at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image is a distant galaxy, called HerS 020941.1+001557. It appears to be partially circling another galaxy, SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, and seems to be intersected in part by the curving, red crescent of light of another remote galaxy, SDSS J020941.23+001600.7,

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