Sunny Priyan
TheHubble Space Telescope imaged the lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391.
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The galaxy resides 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco near the north celestial pole.
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Its star-studded spiral arms stand in splendid isolation against a backdrop of distant galaxies.
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They are only visible as indistinct swirls or smudges due to their vast distances from Earth.
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The image also features some much brighter foreground stars closer to home.
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These bright nearby stars are ringed with diffraction spikes – prominent spikes caused by light interacting with the inner workings of Hubble’s secondary mirror supports.
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