Wide-field View of Lenticular Galaxy NGC 4993 (ground-based view)

Wide-field View of Lenticular Galaxy NGC 4993 (ground-based view)

This image shows the sky around the lenticular galaxy NGC 4993. Within this galaxy Hubble discovered the first visual counterpart of a gravitational wave event—the merger of two neutron stars.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: October 16, 2017

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