The galaxy is located about 150 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation serpens.
This galaxy is mostly disc-like in shape, but a round glow of light protrudes from its center on both sides. That is it's central bulge, a tight concentration of older stars – a structure that is classic to spiral galaxies.
Image description: A spiral galaxy at an edge-on point of view lies diagonally across the scene. It appears as a pale, razor-thin line with rusty filaments and the circular glow of its central bulge protruding from its midway point. Behind the galaxy, black space fills background, dotted with distant stars and galaxies
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel
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Very cool, thanks for sharing
edit: found some [more info](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-an-edge-on-spiral-with-curve-appeal/)
> Like most full-color Hubble images, this image is a composite, made up of several individual snapshots taken by Hubble at different times, each capturing different wavelengths of light. One notable aspect of this image is that the two sets of data that comprise this image were collected 23 years apart, in 2000 and 2023!