Edge-on galaxy NGC 4013 in Ursa Major

by: Nasa/Hubble heritage team/Novapix
Reference: a-gax40-13002
Date: 2006-09-11

The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This picture reveals with exquisite detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk. NGC 4013 is a spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, lying some 55 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.

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