# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/13uPK2mhyu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15348025-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/6995865f39.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-04-24T20:13:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Are you ready to look into a galaxy far, far away? Let's say hello to the weekend with this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showing an elliptical galaxy called NGC 2865. It lies just over 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Hydra — The Sea Serpent — and was discovered in 1835 by astronomer John Herschel. Elliptical galaxies are usually filled with old, dying stars. NGC 2865, however, is relatively youthful and dynamic, with a rapidly rotating disk full of young stars and metal-rich gas. For an elliptical galaxy it contains an unusually high number of young stars — suggesting that a galaxy-wide starburst took place about one billion years ago.
Can you believe we are able to see this far away from our home planet?! Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA 
#nasa #hubble25 #galaxy #space #photograhy #exploration #science #technology #anniversary #stars

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science, nasa, space, hubble25, exploration, galaxy, technology, photograhy, anniversary, stars

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