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Image 2: On a black star-filled background, a large galaxy is just off-center. The center of the galaxy is beige. Two long arms filled with stars and stripes of brown and blue gases reach out from the right and left and encircle the center in a clockwise motion. In the arms are patches of bright pink spots. The arm that curves at the very top reaches out to a fuzzy yellow ball of light.

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Image 2: On a black star-filled background, a large galaxy is just off-center. The center of the galaxy is beige. Two long arms filled with stars and stripes of brown and blue gases reach out from the right and left and encircle the center in a clockwise motion. In the arms are patches of bright pink spots. The arm that curves at the very top reaches out to a fuzzy yellow ball of light.
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Space Telescope Science Inst. (spacetelescope@astrodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 14:54:57 UTC Space Telescope Science Inst.

These two images of the Whirlpool Galaxy were produced 160 years apart. The first is an 1845 sketch of the galaxy by Irish astronomer William Parsons. The second was taken by Hubble in 2005. But the resemblance is easy to see.
Credit: William Parsons; NASA/ESA. #astronomy

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