The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and is a denizen of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster. A large, face-on spiral galaxy. The core is radiating Streaks of dust glow intensely red, in the centre and across most of the galaxy. This gas is surrounded by a dark grey halo made of the galaxy’s stars. The halo stretches out into a tidal tail at the upper-left, and another at the bottom. CREDIT: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans

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CREDIT: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans

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