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Bask in this glorious Hubble image of a ‘quintessential’ barred spiral galaxy

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The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped yet another beautiful image of the wonders to be found out in the depths of space.
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped yet another beautiful image of the wonders to be found out in the depths of space. This one shows the galaxy NGC 2336, a barred spiral galaxy located around 100 million light-years away. It is so picture-perfect that the Hubble scientists refer to it as “the quintessential galaxy.” This galaxy is around 200,000 light-years across, making it twice as wide as our Milky Way galaxy which is around 100,000 light-years across. NGC 2336 also has long arms — the blue-tinted structures radiating out from its center.

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