a bright white object in the middle of a dark sky

Elliptical Galaxy M60 Caption This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive elliptical galaxy M60. The galaxy lies about 50 million light-years away inside the immense Virgo Cluster of 2,500 galaxies. A portion of the faint bluish spiral galaxy NGC 4647 can be seen in the upper right corner of this image. Credits NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration