And what do these images reveal about the universe?
4. UGC 10214 Tadpole GalaxyHere is a picture of it taken by Hubble Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in March 2002.Wikimedia Commons/NASA, H. Ford , G. Illingworth , M. Clampin , G. Hartig , the ACS Science Team, and ESA.The "Tadpole" is an unusual spiral galaxy located about 420 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco.
It has the size of approximatelyElliptical galaxies have spherical or oval shapes. This picture taken by Hubble Space Telescope shows the central region of NGC 474 with its spherical-shaped core and its layered shell-like structures.As of today, scientists are not sure where those shells come from, but they believe that they could be the result of a collision with another galaxy or the absorption of a smaller galaxy. An absorbed galaxy could create waves, and those waves could form shells.
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