Backlit Dust Lanes

• Backlit Dust Lanes. The giant galaxy NGC 7049 lies 100 million light years away from Earth in 
• the constellation of Indus, in the southern sky. It measures approximately 150,000 light-years
•  across, or about 1.5 times wider than the Milky Way. The dust lanes, which appear as a lacy web, 
• are dramatically backlit by the millions of stars in the halo of NGC 7049