This image, captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714, about 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes (the Herdsman). NGC 5714 is classified as an Sc spiral galaxy, but its spiral arms--the dominating feature of spiral galaxies--are almost impossible to see, as NGC 5714 presents itself at an almost perfectly edge-on angle.
This image, captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714, about 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes (the Herdsman). NGC 5714 is classified as an Sc spiral galaxy, but its spiral arms--the dominating feature of spiral galaxies--are almost impossible to see, as NGC 5714 presents itself at an almost perfectly edge-on angle.
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