A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a distant galaxy cloaked in a ghostly haze. The recent image was taken using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Known as NGC 6684, this lenticular galaxy — a cross between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy — is located roughly 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pavo. Lenticular, or lens-shaped, galaxies have a central bulge and disk, but lack distinct arms like those found in spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way.
