Oddball Galaxy With 'Tangled Threads' Snapped By Hubble | Video

Galaxy NGC 4696 is 150 million light-years from Earth and has a "bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments," according to the Space Telescope Science Institute. NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured new imagery of the galaxy, located in Centaurus constellation.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 and S. Brunier/ESO/L. Calçada/mash mix: Space.com