Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Wonky Spiral Galaxy Has an Identity Crisis
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NGC 4388 is one of 1300 galaxies that make up the Virgo constellation, but it’s a little confused. It has the classic, smooth shape of an elliptical galaxy but has symmetrical spiral arms emerging from the core like a spiral galaxy. While it's technically a spiral galaxy, the strange shape was most likely caused by bumping into other nearby galaxies.
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Middle school students programmed an International Space Station camera to take this photo of the Sahara desert.
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Different filters show varying altitudes of cloud coverage in Saturn’s northern hemisphere.
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This image of Valles Marineris, a system of canyons on Mars, shows the colorful bedrock beneath.
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Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this photo of flying towards the sunrise from the International Space Station.
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In this view of the jet stream around Saturn’s north pole, each side of the hexagon is about as wide as Earth.
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In this map, invisible dark matter is shown in pink, covering an area 420 times the size of the full moon.
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