NASA telescope captures stunning image of nearby lens-shaped galaxy - Devdiscourse

Lenticular galaxies get their names from their edge-on appearance that resembles a lens. They fall somewhere in between spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies and have a large central bulge and flattened disk-like spirals, but no spiral arms.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 1023, one of the nearest, massive lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxies to Earth that lies some 36 million light-years away from us. Hu… [+1700 chars]

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