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DescriptionThrough the elliptical haze.jpg |
English: Like a lighthouse in the fog the luminous core of NGC 2768 slowly fades outwards to a dull white haze in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
NGC 2768 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). It is a huge bundle of stars, dominated by a bright central region, where a supermassive black hole feasts on a constant stream of gas and dust being fed to it by its galactic host. The galaxy is also marked by a prominent plume of dust reaching out from the centre and lying perpendicular to the galaxy’s plane. This dust conceals a symmetrical, s-shaped pair of jets that are being produced by the supermassive black hole as it feeds. |
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Author | ESA/Hubble, NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble, NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 30 November 2015 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows) |
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Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:399c5e34-5c0d-2443-806b-f77330fd31a7 |
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |
Keywords | NGC 2768 |
IIM version | 4 |