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NGC 1365 the great barred spiral galaxy [View all]
I used 9 hours of data from a remote observatory in chile that i then processed in pixinsight and photoshop
teh galaxy is about 56 million light years from earth. Its estimated to be 2x the size of our galaxy but our galaxy i suspected of having teh same general shape. at the center of the galaxy is a massive black hole up to 2 million times as massive as the sun
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