NASA’s Hubble spots ‘flying saucer,’ but not the alien kind
If science fiction flicks have taught us one thing, it's that when aliens eventually discover our planet they'll be arriving in flying discs that seem to defy gravity. These mythical "flying saucers" are a well-worn sci-fi trope, but NASA's trusty Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a flying saucer of its own, only this one is far larger than anything we'd want to see visiting Earth.
The image you see above, which was captured by Hubble, shows a galaxy known as IC 2051. As NASA explains in a new blog post, the galaxy is located in the constellation Mensa, and is situated some 85 million light-years from Earth.
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