eso_eso1152c December 15th, 2011
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
This image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The field of view is approximatelly 3.7 x 3.6 degrees. The galaxy NGC 253 appears at the centre of the picture and the globular star cluster NGC 288 at the lower left. The cluster is orbiting the Milky Way and is much closer to us than NGC 253, which lies about eleven million light-years from Earth.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1152c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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