9 amazing pictures of galaxies

Over the years, space telescopes have sent many extraordinary images of distant galaxies back to our home planet. Some of the main figures are millions of light-years away, others can be seen from Earth using a telescope or – with a little luck – with the naked eye.

Amazing pictures of galaxies

What about the cart wheel system? By combining images from four space telescopes, we obtained a color image of this ring-shaped galaxy. Or the Black Eye Galaxy, which gets its name from the dust bar that can be seen in front of the bright center of the galaxy in a Hubble image.

See beautiful images of nine galaxies below.

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