NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning side-on view of spiral galaxy UGC 10043, located 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. We can observe the galaxy’s disc as a sharp line through space, with dust spread across its spiral arms.
This dust lane appears very thick and cloudy when viewed from the side, while even the lights of some active star-forming regions in the arms manage to shine out from behind the dust. The galactic center boasts a glowing, egg-like ‘bulge’ that rises far above and below the disc. All spiral galaxies have a bulge similar to this as part of their structure, as they contain stars that orbit the galactic center on paths above and below the whirling disc.
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A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disc looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disc in the center most of the way out to the ends, and the disc glows around that. In the center a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disc,” said the ESA.
