Look closer at the NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1266, and you could mistake it for a spiral galaxy. There is a bright core with some signs of spiraling arms, but no real spirals extending outward, no graceful spirals unfurling into space. Instead, reddish‑brown dust clumps obscure its features, while distant galaxies shine […]
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