About 44 million light years away sits NGC 5866, the Spindle Galaxy, seen here in an edge-on view that reveals its thinness. It's getting old fast. NGC 5866 is a lenticular galaxy, a type that has a central bulge and flat disk like our Milky Way, but appears to lack the spiral arms that decorate our own galaxy. The galaxy is running out of raw gas and dust, with the dark streak representing the last material available for star formation.