# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/6c9U17oaMI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11737316-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-08-16T17:22:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Hubble Sees a "Mess of Stars" - Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of stars - this Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of a messy barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 428. It lies approximately 48 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Overall NGC 428's spiral structure appears to be quite distorted and warped, thought to be a result of a collision between two galaxies. 
Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)

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