08/18/2017 01:08 PM EDT
This is the disk galaxy NGC 4565, viewed at nearly an edge-on angle. The darker line running down the middle of the disk is a feature called a dust lane, identified by users in the Galaxy Zoo 2 project. Dust in galaxies can act as shadows, absorbing the starlight from the center of the galaxy and ... This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Researchers publish catalog of galaxies (Image 1)
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