Image of the Day: 10/10/14

(Photo Credit:  ESA/Hubble/NASA/Nick Rose)

This magnificent new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4206: an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo.

Dust within Milky Way revealed in new 3D map

(A small section of the map shows how the dust is arranged at a distance of 9000 light years. – Photo Credit: Sale et al/IPHAS)

An international team of astronomers have created a new three-dimensional map of the Milky Way’s interstellar dust by mapping the dust present between distant stars.