NGC 3077
Date: 30 September 2008
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 3077
Copyright: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)
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The dark clumps of material scattered around the bright nucleus of NGC 3077 are pieces of wreckage from the galaxy's interactions with its larger neighbours. NGC 3077 is a member of the M81 group of galaxies and it resides 12.5 million light-years from Earth.
Last Update: 1 September 2019