esahubble_opo9728c September 10th, 1997
Credit: Philippe Crane (European Southern Observatory), and NASA/ESA
A ground-based telescopic view of the core of the elliptical galaxy NGC 6251. The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. The galaxy is 300 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Minor.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9728c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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