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A Hubble Sweep of the Dust Filaments of NGC 4217
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In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes a close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, located 60 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is seen almost perfectly edge on and is a perfect candidate for studying the nature of extraplanar dust structures — the patterns of gas and dust above and below the plane on the galaxy, seen here as brown wisps coming off NGC 4217.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA Hubble Sweep of the Dust Filaments of NGC 4217. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000834.
