Hubble Spiral Galaxy ESO 422-41
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes spiral galaxy ESO 422-41 with its brightly shining core, located 34 million light-years away in the constellation Columba. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys was used to study the galaxy’s spiral arms and the glow from its dense core.


Hubble Spiral Galaxy ESO 422-41
What you’re looking at here is a spiral galaxy with a brightly shining core and two large arms. The arms appear to be faint overall and quite patchy, while several small bright spots can be seen where stars are forming. At second glance, you may also spot a few foreground stars with small diffraction spikes in front of the galaxy

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The name ESO 422-41 comes from its identification in the European Southern Observatory (B) Atlas of the Southern Sky. In the times before automated sky surveys with space observatories such as ESA’s Gaia, many stars, galaxies and nebulae were discovered by means of large photographic surveys,” said the ESA.

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