Stunning new Hubble images of spiral galaxy

The galaxy, titled NGC 4911, lies more than 320 million light-years away in the "Coma Cluster" of about 1,000 galaxies and islands of stars similar to the Milky Way. Nasa said the stunning long-exposure picture, titled "Island Universe", shows the "majestic face-on spiral galaxy" in the northern constellation Coma Berenices amid a sea of stars.

The "natural-colour" image, released by the space agency combines data from 2006, 2007, and 2009. A high resolution copy of the image has also been...