Have a Cosmic Christmas! Galaxy NGC 4696 | Hubble
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster.
Distance: 120 million light years
The huge dust lane, around 30,000 light-years across, that sweeps across the face of the galaxy makes NGC 4696 look different from most other elliptical galaxies. Viewed at certain wavelengths, strange thin filaments of ionized hydrogen are visible within it. In this picture, these structures are visible as a subtle marbling effect across the galaxy’s bright center.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble and NASA
Release Date: August 12, 2010
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