Resurrecting our occasional series of pictures of space is this snap from Spain’s Calar Alto observatory.

The spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is 50 million light-years away and was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel in 1784 and this image is “one of the best snapshots ever obtained”, says the observatory’s press release.

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Galaxias en la punta de los dedos – Levante-EMV

La foto de una galaxia similar a la Vía Láctea, captada por un observatorio español, será imagen del día de la NASA – Europa Press