image: Hubble has snapped a spectacular view of M 66, the largest "player" of the Leo Triplet, and a galaxy with an unusual anatomy: it displays asymmetric spiral arms and an apparently displaced core ...

The biggest galaxy in the Leo Triplet swaggers in the constellation of Leo, in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Notice those assymetrical arms, which come from a powerful attraction to ...

Hubble has snapped an amazing new photo of a peculiar galaxy caught in the middle of two other galaxies that appear to be stretching it out. The oddball spiral galaxy, called Messier 66, is one-third ...

Hubble has snapped a spectacular view of M 66, the largest "player" of the Leo Triplet, and a galaxy with an unusual anatomy: it displays asymmetric spiral arms and an apparently displaced core. The ...

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This absolutely picturesque galaxy is Messier 66 (also known as NGC 3627), an intermediate spiral galaxy found more than 36 million light-years from Earth (in the constellation of Leo). The galaxy ...

The supernova designated SN 2016cok can be spotted at the edge of the Messier 66 galaxy, marked by the two rectangular crosshairs. Gianluca Masi, The Virtual Telescope Project Supernovae are certainly ...

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a new photo of a peculiar galaxy caught in the middle of two other galaxies that appear to be stretching it out. The oddball spiral galaxy, called Messier 66, is one ...

Hubble has snapped an amazing new photo of a peculiar galaxycaught in the middle of two other galaxies that appear to be stretching it out. The oddball spiral galaxy, called Messier 66, is one-thirdof ...