Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

This is Malin 1: the prototype of the rare class of giant low surface brightness galaxies. The blue scale displays the distribution of stars down to very low surface brightnesses, while the green contours display the distribution of atomic gas. In case you are visiting the Museum of Natural History in New York, you can see this image in the astronomy section by looking inside a binocular! From Lelli et al. 2010.