Eye Candy: Hubble On Edge

This is mind-bending. This is a photo of a galaxy (named NGC 5866) taken by Hubble at a side on view. Beautiful.

From the Description:
This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk of stars running parallel to the dust lane, and a transparent outer halo. NGC 5866 is a disk galaxy of type "S0" (pronounced s-zero). Viewed face on, it would look like a smooth, flat disk with little spiral structure.


And don't miss the many other galaxies meandering around the outside.