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Day 14 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Ripples of a Galactic Merger
Day 14 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Ripples of a Galactic Merger. The Hubble Space Telescope recently gathered this image of lenticular galaxy NGC 4753, about 60 million light-years away. Scientists believe this object to be the result of an earlier merging of two galaxies, which is still flattening and throwing off waves of dust lanes.
TL;DR
- Hubble Space Telescope imaged lenticular galaxy NGC 4753.
- NGC 4753 is located about 60 million light-years away.
- Scientists believe NGC 4753 resulted from a merger of two galaxies.
- The galaxy is still flattening and expelling waves of dust lanes.
- This image is part of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar.