What Tangled Web: Galaxy's Messy 'Threads' Star in New Pic

Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth, NGC 4696 is a member of the Centaurus galaxy cluster — a group of hundreds of galaxies bound together by gravity in the constellation of Centaurus. What's more, NGC 4696 is the brightest member of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, and belongs to a group of "some of the biggest and brightest galaxies known in the universe," according to a statement from the European Space Agency. The recent Hubble telescope observations provided the most detai