# @hubbleesa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dda9NWvF-go
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70689589-hubbleesa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T08:00:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hubble Space Telescope (@hubbleesa) — https://gondola.cc/hubbleesa

## Caption

Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month features a galaxy spinning out of sync 🫨⁠
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🔴 NGC 4698 may look like any other spiral galaxy, but it has a chaotic secret 🤫 it is one of a few known spiral galaxies with a bulge that extends from its disc at a right angle. This is just visible here, the glow of the central bulge peeking above and below the disc.⁠
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🔴 That is not all that is unusual about NGC 4698. The stars and gas nearest the galaxy’s centre also rotate perpendicular to the rest of the disc!⁠
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🔴 What could cause a galaxy to be so out of sync? Astronomers suspect the answer lies outside the galaxy: gas streaming in may have formed a tilted disc in the galaxy’s centre, and NGC 4698 may also have once experienced a small galactic merger! ⁠
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For more information check the link in bio.⁠
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📷 europeanspaceagency / hubbleesa & NASA , D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team⁠
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#ESA #Hubble

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