Oddball Galaxy With 'Tangled Threads' Snapped By Hubble | Video

By Steve Spaleta | December 1, 2016 06:12pm ET

Galaxy NGC 4696 is 150 million light-years from Earth and has a “bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments,” according to the Space Telescope Science Institute. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope   has captured new imagery of the galaxy, located in the Centaurus constellation. 

credit : ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 and S. Brunier/ESO/L. Calçada/mash mix: Space.com

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