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A well-studied spiral

A well-studied spiral

Hubble Space Telescope

The celestial object that is displayed in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 7496, a galaxy located over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus (The Crane). NGC 7496 is a dusty spiral galaxy with a bar of stars stretching across its centre.

Credit
ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
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