HUBBLE ATLAS

Galaxies

Zoom into UGC 2885

January 5, 2020 · NASA

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This video is an animated zoom into the location of the immense spiral galaxy UGC 2885. We begin with a view of the autumn northern constellation Perseus. We look across 232 million light-years of space to see the full expanse of the galaxy, which is over two times the width of our Milky Way galaxy and contains at least 1 trillion stars.