This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope The image reveals a small part of the sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a breathtaking range of distances. The objects in this image closest to us are stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. You can easily spot these stars by their diffraction spikes, lines that radiate from bright sources of light, like nearby stars, because of how that light interacts with the supports in Hubble’s secondary mirror. The bright star that sits just at the edge of the prominent bluish galaxy is just 3,230 light years away, measured by ESA Gaia space observatory.
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