Galaxy Gem

Like our Milky Way, galaxy NGC 3949 has a blue disk of young stars peppered with bright pink star-birth regions. In contrast to the blue disk, the bright central bulge is made up of mostly older, redder stars. NGC 3949 lies about 50 million light-years from Earth.
Like our Milky Way, galaxy NGC 3949 has a blue disk of young stars peppered with bright pink star-birth regions. In contrast to the blue disk, the bright central bulge is made up of mostly older, redder stars. NGC 3949 lies about 50 million light-years from Earth.

Want to know what we look like from outside the Milky Way Galaxy? Here you go—a privileged view from the Hubble Space Telescope. Of course, this IS a different galaxy, but it’s much like our own: brimming with starbirth regions, shaped into spiral arms and dust lanes that girdle a brilliant core where a black hole lies buried. Gaze at this and think of the millions of stars and planets and maybe even life forms that inhabit this galactic “twin” to our own!

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