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Hubble Sees a Dwarf Galaxy Shaped by a Grand Design
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The subject of this Hubble image is NGC 5474, a dwarf galaxy located 21 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). This beautiful image was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The term "dwarf galaxy" may sound diminutive, but don't let that fool you — NGC 5474 contains several billion stars! However, when compared to the Milky Way with its hundreds of billions of stars, NGC 5474 does indeed seem relatively small.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble Sees a Dwarf Galaxy Shaped by a Grand Design. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001053.
