Published 13:38 IST, May 26th 2020

NASA's Hubble telescope captures stunning image of swirling galaxy

Scientists at National  Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)  have captured a stunning image of a spiral galaxy named NGC 3895 using Hubble telescope.

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Scientists at National  Aeronautics ministration (NASA)  have captured a stunning im of a spiral galaxy named NGC 3895. According to NASA, swirling galaxy was first spotted in 1790 by British astromer William Herschel. photograph which was captured by Hubble Telescope was shared on its Twitter p.

photograph which was dubbed as 'Picture of week' by Hubble has been liked nearly 500 times since posted on May 25. According to reports NGC 3895 galaxy is orwise also kwn as LEDA 36907, UGC 6785 and KPG 303b and is 161 million light-years away from planet earth. galaxy has a diameter of approximately 45,000 light-years.

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'Cosmic ring of fire'

On same day, scientists also discovered a galaxy that looks like a massive "cosmic ring of fire" and stated that discovery could help in learning more about evolution of galactic structures. incredibly rare kind of galaxy has a similar mass to that of Milky Way but is shaped like a doughnut with a hole in middle, according to a press release from ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) released on May 25.

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Astromers have mand to capture an im of galaxy and revealed what it looked like 11 billion years ago. galaxy has been named R5519 and it is 11 billion light-years away from our Solar System. As ted by scientists, hole at its center has a diameter two billion times bigger than distance between Earth and sun. discovery is described in details in journal Nature Astromy.

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Collisional ring galaxies are formed after colliding with or galaxies. It is said that discovery could help astromers understand how our own galaxy, Milky Way could have formed. As per study, it takes a "thin disk" of material present in one galaxy to collide with ar to form a collisional ring galaxy.

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13:38 IST, May 26th 2020