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The Hubble Telescope has captured another cracker, this time of a spiral-shaped galaxy.
A TEAM OF EUROPEAN ASTRONOMERS using the Hubble Space Telescope have created a spectacular image of a spiral galaxy.
NGC 3982 was one of hundreds of other galaxies imaged so that astronomers can look back after some of the stars have become supernovae and spot the exact star which exploded.
NASA says that no two spiral galaxies are exactly the same. The space agency says that the image of NGC 3982 shows “pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, newborn blue star clusers, and obscuring dust lanes that provide the raw material for future generations of stars”.
This galaxy is located some 68m light years away and is believed to be one-third of the size of the Milky Way galaxy.
The images used were captured between March 2000 and August last year.
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