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The Hubble telescope has captured
an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details
of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the
formation of new generations of stars.
The dust and spiral arms of normal
spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on.
This Hubble Heritage image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that, by contrast,
has an unusual twisted disk structure, first seen in ground-based photographs.