Astronomy Picture Of The Day: In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033

 

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In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033 The featured image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. NGC 5033 spans about 100,000 light years and is so far away that we see it only as it existed about 40 million years ago. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, MAST Judy Schmidt