Behold the coiled beauty of this snake-like galaxy 80 million light-years from Earth - Space.com

This striking image of NGC 1087 was recently captured by the ALMA observatory in Chile.

A spiral galaxy is curled up like a sleeping serpent in a striking new image from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA's high altitude … [+1924 chars]

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