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Hubble captures spiral galaxy NGC 4698 in Virgo

The NASA/ESA telescope imaged the galaxy, about 55 million light-years from Earth.

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Hubble captures distant spiral galaxy
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4698, about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. [1] Archival Hubble observations now stretch back 35 years, a span the astronomer David O'Ryan notes provides a treasure trove of data for finding astrophysical anomalies. [3] O'Ryan and fellow astronomer Pablo Gómez are mining that record with an AI tool called AnomalyMatch, which has scanned nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble archive. [2]
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  1. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4698, which is located approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. · Phys.org ·
  2. European astronomers David O’Ryan and Pablo Gómez used an AI tool called AnomalyMatch to scan nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Space Telescope archive. · Space Daily
  3. David O’Ryan noted that archival observations from the Hubble Space Telescope now stretch back 35 years, providing a treasure trove of data for finding astrophysical anomalies. · Space Daily
  4. An astronomy team reported finding approximately 50 faint 'ghost' dwarf galaxies located up to 100 million light-years from Earth, a result that could address gaps between cosmological models and observed satellite galaxy populations. · Media Indonesia
  5. Elias 24b is a gas giant located in a protoplanetary disk around the young star Elias 24, situated approximately 400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. · Media Indonesia
  6. High-level infrared and millimeter-wave observations confirmed that a large gap in the Elias 24 protoplanetary disk was carved by the gravitational pull of the growing Elias 24b exoplanet. · Media Indonesia
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