by Chris Ciaccia at The Daily Mail
Prior to its shutdown due to a malfunctioning computer from the 1980s, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to take a remarkable image of a galaxy in deep space that has a core that gives off as much energy as the rest of the galaxy all together.
The galaxy, known as NGC 3254, is not a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, but rather a Seyfert galaxy.
Seyfert galaxies, which make up approximately 10 percent of all galaxies, have ‘extraordinarily active cores’ and belong to a class of ‘active galaxies,’ according to a statement from NASA.
The image of NGC 3254 is a composite of both infrared and visible images:…
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