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Space
Space
Science
Samantha Mathewson

Hubble Space Telescope spies a spiral galaxy in a cosmic 'clock'

A dazzling spiral galaxy of bright blue and dark red gasses with spurts of pink.

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a pendulum swinging back and forth through space. 

The galaxy, called IC 1954, is located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, The Clock. It boasts a bright central bar and two large, winding spiral arms threaded with dark clouds of dust and speckled with blue and pink glowing patches. 

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