NASA Zooms into Spiral Galaxy

in Astronomy, Science, Video - Science | February 17th, 2011 Leave a Comment

Courtesy of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re zooming into a “majestic disk of stars and dust lanes” and getting a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, which lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). But wait, it gets even better. This high resolution still photo shows the spiral galaxy in all its beauty and splendor…


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