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A galaxy spinning out of sync
Though the spiral galaxy in this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo . It’s one of over one thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity. As a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that…
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- Hubble Space Telescope
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