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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Hubble captures images of an “ethereal” spiral galaxy located 380 million light-years from Earth

Image of spiral galaxy captured by Hubble Space Telescope.

It’s almost 36 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and NASA continues to blow minds with the unbelievable and often iconic images captured by the device.

The latest of these to be shared by the space agency is of IC 486, a barred spiral galaxy that sits at the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), roughly 380 million light-years from Earth, far beyond any distance the human mind can imagine.

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