NGC 3079

15 Mpc (50 million light-years)

The bubble that resides at the center of galaxy NGC 3079 is more than 3,000 light-years wide and rises 3,500 light-years above the galaxy's disk

Principal Astronomers: G. Cecil (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), S. Veilleux (U. Maryland, College Park), J. Bland-Hawthorn (AAO), and A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley)

F658N ([N II]), F814W (I)

NASA, Gerald Cecil (University of North Carolina), Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo- Australian Observatory), and Alex Filippenko (University of California at Berkeley).