NGC 4676 (Mice Galaxies) Wall Art PopSocket NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched down eight years ago

show the stars and the galaxy’s characteristic dust lane in close to "true colour"

and appears as a blurred blob in our skies

you could travel to the Moon and back in 15 minutes

wound loosely around its central bright bar of stars

NGC 4676 (Mice Galaxies) Wall Art PopSocket NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touchedAdvanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse and mouse. Located 300 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, the colliding galaxies have been nicknamed "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas emanating from each galaxy. Otherwise known as NGC 4676, the pair will