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This clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the spiral galaxy N…

This clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the spiral galaxy NGC 4248, located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as it embarked on compiling the first Hubble ultraviolet ‘atlas’, for which the telescope targeted 50 nearby star-forming galaxies. See https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1730a/