Just to be clear, this spiral galaxy is not poisonous despite it resembling a snake. Thanks to the Chile-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers are able to image the NGC 1087, which resembles a curled sleeping snake.
Unlike a traditional telescope, Gaia scans the entire sky repeatedly rather than just viewing one fascinating distant object at a time. Learn more about the data that it has gathered in this article.