Friday, January 9, 2015

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Spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines brighter than a diamond in the rough, around 45 million light-years away in the constellation of Fornax. The blue spiral arms are mottled with pinkish stars mixed in the mesh. It also has alot of other peculiar features, such as a very deep exposure of deep, mysterious jets which are easily seen beyond the blue arms to the left. A very extaoridnary fact is that this galaxy hosts a super massive black hole.

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