Hubble accidentally captured a small asteroid rushing 'through galaxies'

A new image from NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a variety of astronomical objects. On

 photos are “scattered” backgroundgalaxies—from majestic spirals to blurry ellipses; and also bright stars in the foreground, surrounded by diffraction “bursts”.

There is a blurry shape in the center of the image.The small galaxy UGC 7983 looks like a hazy glowing cloud. It is located approximately 30 million light years from Earth in the constellation Virgo and is a dwarf irregular galaxy. Such objects are believed to be similar to the earliest galaxies in the Universe.

Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Tully; SS BY 4.0, edited by Hi-Tech

Also in the photo you can see the “cosmicintruder" is a small asteroid, only a few kilometers across. In the photo, she seems to be rushing “through galaxies.” It is visible in the upper left of this image as four streaks of light that are separated by small gaps. This is all because of the four separate exposures that were combined to create this image. Short intervals between each observation are necessary to change filters in Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

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