New NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of Messier 96, a spiral galaxy. Image via ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team, Acknowledgement: R. Gendler
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released this new Hubble image on Friday, September 4, 2015. It’s Messier 96 – called M96 by astronomers – a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation of Leo the Lion. It’s about the same mass and size as our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
(From Earthsky.)
One day alien life will let itself be known.
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