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Hubble Space Telescope captures image of giant galaxy surrounded by ‘shells’

By Christopher Hutton
Published May 25, 2022 3:20pm ET
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Hubble Space Telescope captures image of giant galaxy surrounded by ‘shells’
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of an enormous galaxy that is estimated to be twice as large as the Milky Way. The elliptical galaxy, identified as NGC 474, is approximately 100 million light-years from Earth and is 250,000 light-years across, or 2.5 Milky Ways in length, according to images released by NASA on […]

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of an enormous galaxy that is estimated to be twice as large as the Milky Way.

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