NASA captures ghostly image of beautiful galaxy

Of all the features in a spiral galaxy, perhaps the most breathtaking are the many arms that appear to spin away in arches from the galaxy's center. 

The Nation Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) caught the image of one such ghostly sight with the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a July 20 press release from NASA.

The picture features what the agency describes as "stunning silvery-blue spiral arms" of the NGC 4848 galaxy in incredible detail.

"Not only do we see the inner section of the spiral arms containing hundreds of thousands of young, bright, blue stars, but Hubble has also captured the extremely faint, wispy tails of the outer spiral arms," NASA said in its press release. "Myriad more distant and delightfully diverse galaxies appear in the background."

This galaxy was first discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest in 1865. People in the Northern Hemisphere may be able to view the galaxy with a large telescope.