The Loneliest of Galaxies: MCG+01-02-015 in Pisces | HubbleOnly three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them is a galaxy; floating like a swarm of microbes in a drop of water, and brought into view here not by a microscope, but by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.In the foreground, the spiral arms of MCG+01-02-015 seem to wrap around one another, cocoon…
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