A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy partly hidden by a huge cloud of dust known as a dark nebula.
The galaxy IC 4633 still shines brightly and beautifully in the main part of the image, but to the bottom right, you can see dark smudges of dust that are blocking the light from this part of the galaxy.
This is a bustling, busy galaxy, with vigorous star formation and a bright center called an active galactic nucleus. Thanks to its orientation relative to Earth, we can see the elegant spiral shape. Spiral galaxies tend to be symmetrical, so you can tell that the bottom right part of the galaxy is being obscured by something as it is so much less bright with stars than other parts.
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