NGC 3521 The Bubble Galaxy - telescope processed image. It’s a "flocculent" spiral galaxy, meaning its arms look fuzzy and patchy like cotton balls rather than having long, well-defined paths.

NGC 3521 The Bubble Galaxy - unprocessed image. It is surrounded by a giant shell of stars and dust, likely debris from smaller galaxies that NGC 3521 swallowed in its distant past.

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