NASA Hubble Mission Team Goddard Space Flight Center May 04, 2026 In this new picture from NASA’s  Hubble Space Telescope , a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump). As a nearby spiral galaxy, this target offers astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the cycle of stellar birth and death, as well as giving researchers a glimpse of a galactic system similar to our own. NGC 3137 is of particular interest to astronomers because it travels through space with a group of galaxies that is thought to be similar to the Local Group, the galaxy group that contains our Milky Way. Similar to the Local Group, the NGC 3175 group contains two large spiral galaxies: NGC 3137 and NGC 3175, which  Hubble has also observed . In the Local Group, the largest members are the Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda, another spiral galaxy.…