Scientists using the Hubble Telescope, which on April 24 will mark the 27th anniversary since the launch, received a snapshot of two galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298. As noted on the NASA website, the image allows you to understand what the Milky Way would look like to an outside observer.

Both galaxies are located at a distance of about 55 million light years from Earth. They are in the constellation of Hair of Wernicke in the cluster of the Virgin, which includes about two thousand galaxies.

Both galaxies were discovered in 1784 by William Herschel, then they were called "spiral nebulae", since it was not clear how far from the Earth they are located. In the early twentieth century, Edwin Hubble found that galaxies are clusters of stars far beyond the Milky Way.

Earlier it was reported that the Hubble telescope photographed the edge of the Big Bang. In total, astronomers discovered more than 250 small galaxies that existed between 600 and 900 million years after the Big Bang. Light from these galaxies has traveled a path length of 12 billion years.