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The sprawling and hypnotically symmetrical 'whirlpool galaxy' Messier 51 is so large and so bright that even at its vast distance away, somewhere between 23 and 31 million light-years from Earth, even ...

A mysterious spiral of doom — okay, just a spiral-shaped galaxy — has been captured in a new image by the Hubble Space Telescope. The object belongs to an uncommon class of galaxy called lenticular ...