The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77, one of the most famous and well-studied galaxies in the sky. The patches of red across this image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling arms, with dark dust lanes stretching across the galaxy’s energetic centre.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1305/
Space Scoop - the children's version of this release is available at: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1305/kids/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
28 March 2013
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