It's a beautiful universe, innit?

Or, as Dave Bowman might say, "It's full of stars …"

Reshared post from +NASA

This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Libra. This galaxy has two particularly striking features: a beautiful dust lane and an intensely bright center – much brighter than that of our own galaxy, or indeed those of most spiral galaxies we observe. It's a is a Seyfert galaxy. These galaxies have incredibly luminous centers that are thought to be caused by hungry supermassive black holes – black holes that can be billions of times the size of the sun – that pull in and devour gas and dust from their surroundings.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Perlman (Florida Institute of Technology)

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