Marie S

ALT A spiral galaxy. It has a prominent spiral arm on one side (lower left) and a wide, glowing core. Dark brown filaments of dust swirl through its disk, while blue clusters of stars are visible mostly going out to its arm. On the opposite side of the arm (upper right), gas trails off from the disk, beyond the field of view in this image. A matching spiral arm is not visible on this side. The galaxy lies on a dark background.

ALT Several massive elliptical galaxies appear to sit in a nearly horizontal line across the center of the image. Numerous spiral, lenticular, and smaller elliptical galaxies dot the space surrounding the giant ellipticals.