The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. This is why the astronomers at the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, Cocoa, Fla., gave it this attention-grabbing nickname. While a bird's eye view lets us see the detailed structure of a galaxy (such as this Hubble image of a barred spiral), a side-on view has its own perks. In particular, it gives astronomers a.
Image: “NGC 2683 Spiral galaxy” by NASA, licensed Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons.
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- “NGC 2683 Spiral galaxy” by NASA (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
