Hubble has photographed Arp 184, also called NGC 1961, a spiral galaxy about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. Unlike a typical spiral, it is viewed at a skewed angle and has one broad, star-speckled arm stretching toward us, while its far side has only faint wisps of gas and stars. The galaxy earned its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966, which lists 338 galaxies that are neither clearly elliptical nor clearly spiral. Many of them are interacting with neighbours, and some are dwarf galaxies with no well-defined structure. The image combines data from three short Hubble Snapshot programmes. One of them targeted Arp 184 for its odd shape, while the galaxy is also a good supernova hunting ground, having hosted four known supernovae in the past three decades.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.