Is This the Future of the Milky Way? - Universe Today

A new Hubble Space Telescope image zeroes in an elliptical galaxy with strange shells of matter. It could show us the Milky Way's future.

Take a good look at the latest image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a huge elliptical galaxy called NGC 474 that lies about 100 million light-years away from us. At about two and a … [+4174 chars]

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