It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...
The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a Reddit post under the username Poisin55 around two weeks ago in late October.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...