A Spooky View of Galactic Gas

This image may look spooky to you, but astronomers see a galaxy. It was captured by the Very Large Array (VLA) as part of the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS) and is an atomic gas emission image of the nearby galaxy IC 1613.
Credit: Ohio State/A.Sardone, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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