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Home This image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not included in the famous list by 18th-century comet hunter Charles Messier. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not included in the famous list by 18th-century comet hunter Charles Messier. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

This image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not included in the famous list by 18th-century comet hunter Charles Messier. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not included in the famous list by 18th-century comet hunter Charles Messier. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

This image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not included in the famous list by 18th-century comet hunter Charles Messier. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A speeding star can be seen leaving an enormous trail in this image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
This image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 6744, one of the galaxies most similar to our Milky Way in the local universe. This ultraviolet view highlights the vast extent of the fluffy spiral arms, and demonstrates that star formation can occur in the outer regions of galaxies. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)