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Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientists

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NGC 1961 is 190 million light-years distant in the constellation Camelopardalis , the giraffe.

It has a single broad, star-speckled spiral arm that appears to stretch toward us as the galaxy is viewed from a skewed angle.

The image is available as a panoramic video, a zoomable version and a 15 -megapixel download.

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