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The Hubble telescope has managed to capture several images of a spiral galaxy 180 million light-years away from Earth.
The images revealed that the galaxy is located 180 million light-years away, in the constellation Camelopardalis or the giraffe. This lesser-known constellation can be seen from the northern hemisphere and is large but faint.
The most prominent feature of this galaxy is that it is characterized by its active galactic nucleus, which is the very bright region in its core.
Active galactic nuclei, or AGNs, are targets for study because they are much brighter than can be explained by the presence of stars there, as large amounts of radiation are produced when material falls into the supermassive black hole at their centers.