The Milky Way's (almost) identical twin

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jan 7, 2011 6:00 PMNov 20, 2019 3:15 AM

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In my Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010, I started off with a galaxy I called the Milky Way's fraternal twin; it looks a lot like ours, but has some differences that were worth pointing out. In one of those coincidences that makes me smile, only a few days later the folks at Hubble Space Telescope released another spiral galaxy image, and this one... well, it's a beauty:

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