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At the Edge of NGC 891
This sharp cosmic portrait features NGC 891, a spiral galaxy spanning about 100,000 light-years. We see it almost exactly edge-on from our perspective. About 30 million light-years distant in the constellation Andromeda, NGC 891 looks a lot like our Milky Way. It has a flat, thin, galactic disk and a central bulge cut along the middle by regions of dark obscuring dust. The combined image data also reveal the galaxy's young blue star clusters and pinkish star-forming regions.
In tropical astrology, 26 MAY 2012 falls under Gemini (♊). The sign's window runs from 05-21 through 06-20. Gemini is named for the twin stars Castor and Pollux, both bright enough to spot without a telescope. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 26 MAY 2012.