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Hubble photographs a stellar nursery in a majestic spiral galaxy IC 1954

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy IC 1954. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J. Lee, and PHANGS-HST team This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. At its center is a glowing rod with majestically winding spiral arms, above which is…