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A galaxy on a knife’s edge

Another Hubble Space Telescope gem was captured recently when it photographed a galaxy called NGC 5907, also known as the Knife Edge Galaxy. This picture shows the structure - located roughly 500 million light years away - stretched across Hubble’s keen field of view.

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