An 'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 08:49 in Astronomy & Space

A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. This natural-color image combines data obtained in 2006, 2007, and 2009.

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