Hubble's Next Discovery, You Decide

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NGC 5172 is a spiral galaxy containing more than a 100 billion stars, along with vast clouds of gas and dust. Within a thin disk, the spiral arms exhibit a pinwheel structure. Along the spiral arms, dark dust clouds collapse to create star-forming regions, leading to bright clusters of new stars. Spiral galaxies can be both colorful and majestic.

Object Name: NGC 5172

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, and Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO

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Montage Image: Candidate Objects for 'Hubble's Next Discovery -- You Decide' Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration PRC2009-06b Star-Forming Region NGC 6334 Image Type: Astronomical Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 Image Type: Astronomical Planetary Nebula NGC 40 Image Type: Astronomical Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4289 Image Type: Astronomical Interacting Galaxies Arp 274 Image Type: Astronomical

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