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Hubble Finds a Lenticular Galaxy Standing Out in the Crowd
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A lone source shines out brightly from the dark expanse of deep space, glowing softly against a picturesque backdrop of distant stars and colorful galaxies. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), this scene shows PGC 83677, a lenticular galaxy — a galaxy type that sits between the more familiar elliptical and spiral varieties. It reveals both the relatively calm outskirts and intriguing core of PGC 83677.
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Credit lineHubble Finds a Lenticular Galaxy Standing Out in the Crowd. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000215.
