Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Monster Galaxy Coming at You, Bro

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    This galaxy, seen edge-on, helps scientists understand the distribution of newborn and older stars throughout a galaxy. It also shows the shape of a galaxy’s extended disc, and how that disc warps and twists, caused by interactions with another nearby galaxy.
  • This image of Jupiter captures a turbulent area west of the Great Red Spot.
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    This image of Jupiter captures a turbulent area west of the Great Red Spot.
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    This galaxy is huge: Together with its halo, it contains four times the mass of the Milky Way and several hundred billion times the mass of the sun, rotating at speeds of up to 1.1 million miles per hour.
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    This image shows an inverted fluvial channel at Mars’ equator, formed by hardened sediment within the channel and erosion of surrounding material.
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    Saturn’s north pole, the dark spot in the center, is surrounded by swirling clouds, the planet’s moons, and its rings.
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    This pile of different types of rocks on Mars was probably thrown from the Isidis impact basin to the east.
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