Hubble Sees a Galaxy Bucking the Trend (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Sees a Galaxy Bucking the Trend

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This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter moniker indicates, the galaxy is listed in the famous catalog of deep-sky objects compiled by French comet-hunter Charles Messier in the 18th century.

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ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote

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