Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space

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NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void. The Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys data for NGC 6503 were taken in April 2003, and the Wide Field Camera 3 data were taken in August 2013.

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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University), and the Hubble Heritage Team

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