The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

and the galaxy's spiral arms are decorated with patches of young, blue stars. The elongated yellow-orange objects scattered ...

It has a prominent central bulge represented in blue that shows the location of older stars. The bulge also shows hints of "side lobes," suggesting that this could be a barred-spiral galaxy.

“Interspersed amongst these pink regions are bright blue clusters of hot, young stars whose ultraviolet ... more distant galaxies in the background.” The galaxy is around 15 million light ...