Galaxy AM 0500-620 in Dorado

by: Nasa/Esa/Hubble Heritage Team/Novapix
Reference: a-gax95-00200
Date: 2008-05-10

AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background galaxy. The foreground spiral galaxy has a number of dust lanes between its arms. The background galaxy was earlier classified as an elliptical galaxy, but Hubble has now revealed a galaxy with dusty spiral arms and bright knots of stars. AM0500-620 is 350 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dorado, the Swordfish. Image taken by the Hubble space telescope on march 31, 1997.

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