Thanks to the nature of light and the fact that it can only move so fast, peering at objects far away means that astronomers can effectively look back in time. Well, “can” is a bit of an understatement since they’re quite literally forced to see things as they were, based on how far away the subject they’re observing is.
In the case of the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations of the distant spiral galaxy NGC 2985, that means seeing the galaxy as it was over 70 million years ago. In a new blog post, NASA highlights a particularly stunning image of the far-away galaxy, and it sure is pretty.
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Hubble captured gorgeous snapshot of a massive distant galaxy originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 09:36:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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