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A
false-color
photograph of
NGC 1097
, a
barred spiral galaxy
about
45 million
light-years
away in the
constellation
Fornax
. The galaxy was discovered by
William Herschel
on 9 October 1790. It has a
supermassive black hole
at its center, which is 140 million times the mass of the
Sun
, as well as two
satellite galaxies
. The photograph was taken in
infrared
light by the
Spitzer Space Telescope
.
Photograph:
NASA
/
JPL
-
Caltech
Archive
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