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The edge of the galaxy was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.


We have not been able to see the full size of the Milky Way till date, because our Earth is located at the end of the Milky Way, due to which we are not able to see the Milky Way in its entirety. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, and the volume of the Universe spiral galaxy is much larger, just a few days before NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope took image of a galaxy called NGC 5907, taken by Hubble, the galaxy is expanded in the image  .

Usually seen as a long line of stars and deep dust, the galaxy is classified as a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.  In the new image, taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, we can't see the beautiful spiral arms, because we're looking at it sideways, like looking at the rim of the plate, that's one of the reasons that NGC 5907 Also known as the Knife Edge galaxy.

The northern constellation of Drake, about 50 million years away from Earth, has a Knife Edge galaxy, but we cannot see in this image, as ghostly currents of massive loop stars propagate into space, and revolve around the galaxy, According to the researchers, it was the remnant of a small dwarf galaxy that was separated by the Knife Age galaxy, which merged with it about 4 billion years ago.

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