eso_eso1038a September 22nd, 2010
Credit: ESO/P. Grosbøl
This striking new image, taken with the powerful HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile, shows NGC 1365. This beautiful barred spiral galaxy is part of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, and lies about 60 million light-years from Earth. The picture was created from images taken through Y, J, H and K filters and the exposure times were 4, 4, 7 and 12 minutes respectively. This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1038a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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