Great Barred Spiral Galaxy

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The NGC 1365 galaxy, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, is seen in an image that combines observations performed through three different filters with the 1.5-metre Danish telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, in this handout photo distributed on September 22, 2010. The ESO's website describes the galaxy, at 60 million light-years from Earth, 200,000 light-years across and about twice the size of the Milky Way, as one of the largest known to astronomers. REUTERS

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rohan Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:18 AM

Any intelligence?

E.T. Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:06 AM

Awesome!

Rajitha Thursday, 23 September 2010 07:18 AM

so we are seeing how the galaxy looked 60 million years ago!

(60 million light years away==light takes 60 million years to get here, i.e. the image that we are seeing now is actually 60 million years old)

wonder how it looks today

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