The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI.escalibur t1_j9a53gq wrote
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I’m having a hard time comprehending 420 million light years distance.
Tobs1414 t1_j9a7oyz wrote
Yeah, this image is technically hundreds of millions of years old. It doesn’t look anything like this now.
imsahoamtiskaw t1_j9b0ret wrote
Or maybe it does. You never know how long the makeup of that galaxy will last. Sephora could never.
danielravennest t1_j9bxvkd wrote
When light left this galaxy heading our way, the first land animals were just coming out of the oceans. Distance = Time.
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