#NASA image of spiral galaxy Messier 66, a mere 35 million light-years away. This island universe is about 1,000 light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. It shows the galaxy's disk dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Messier 66, also known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the gravitationally interacting Leo Triplet

📸 Hubble Collaboration: Davide De Martin and Robert Gendler