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Old 07-February-2009, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff View Post
This image of NGC 4921, a large but gas-anemic spiral galaxy in the Coma Cluster ~320 million light years distant, is a recently released composite from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (dead since 2007) on-board the Hubble Space Telescope. The detail within the galaxy is exquisite and the numbers of background galaxies through cosmic space and time is jaw dropping.
Astounding.
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