Space telescope "Hubble" recently did a beautiful image of a spiral galaxy IC 2233, one of the flat galaxies ever observed by astronomers. A typical spiral galaxy like the milky Way usually contain three main visible components: disk with a spiral arms, where the majority of gas and dust and halos, the area around the disk that contains little gas, dust and Central bulge in the center of the disk, which includes a large concentration of ancient stars surrounding the Galactic center.

However, IC 2233, not typical. This object is the brightest example of super galaxies, and its diameter is at least ten times more of its thickness. This galaxy is composed of simple stellar disk, as seen from the edge. An important characteristic of this type of objects is that they have low brightness and almost all of them do not have convexity.

Bluish color, which can be seen on the drive offers some proof spiral nature of the galaxy and indicates the presence of hot and bright, young stars born out of a cloud of interstellar gas.

In addition, unlike normal spirals, IC 2233 does not have a clear strip of dust. It is located in the constellation Lynx at a distance of about 40 million light-years from Earth. This galaxy was discovered by the British astronomer Isaac Roberts in 1894.