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Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in Fornax

by

ESO/Novapix

Reference

a-gax13-98001

Date

2018-01-02

This galaxy is located in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), approximately 65 million light-years away. This image comprises data gathered by the FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument, mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, Chile. It shows NGC 1398 in striking detail, from the dark lanes of dust mottling its spiral arms, through to the pink-hued star-forming regions sprinkled throughout its outer regions.