Hubble Sees a "Mess of Stars" - Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of stars - this Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of a messy barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 428. It lies approximately 48 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Overall NGC 428's spiral structure appears to be quite distorted and warped, thought to be a result of a collision between two galaxies. Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) #nasa #hubble #hubble25 #hst #nasabeyond #galaxy #space #stars #astronomy #science by nasa

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