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The view from the edge of a sparkling spiral galaxy | Space photo of the day for Oct. 20, 2026

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The side-view of a spiral galaxy.

The spiral galaxy NGC 1827, as seen from the side by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, Michael Jones (California Institute of Technology); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))

If you were approaching the edge of a spiral galaxy, arriving from afar through the cosmos, it might look something like this.

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In this new snapshot by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), we can see the edge of th...

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