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Credit: B. Saxton from data provided by Van Zee, NOAO, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Dwarf galaxy UGC 5288 is 16 million light-years from Earth (seen here in pink). The Very Large Array (VLA) found that it is surrounded by a huge disk of hydrogen gas (purple) that has not been involved in the galaxy\'s star-formation processes and may be primordial material left over from the galaxy\'s formation.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/seeing-the-hidden-truth/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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