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    Galaxies

    45 million lightyears from Earth lies NGC 1097, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Fornax with a beautiful star-bursting nuclear ring surrounding it. This image was captured using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope operated by the European Souther Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. Credit: ESO/TIMER Survey
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    Eye On The Sky Ring of star formation around galactic supermassive black hole

    6 beautiful galaxy collisions seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
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    Eye On The Sky 6 beautiful galaxy collisions seen by the Hubble Space Telescope

    NGC 2799 (left) and NGC 2798 (right) in a galactic merger. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA/ SDSS/J. Dalcanton, CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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    Eye On The Sky Strange galactic merger captured by Hubble Space Telescope

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    A galactic collision looking rather like a Halloween pumpkin. Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
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    Galactic Halloween pumpkin snapped by Hubble Space Telescope

    Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images
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    BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

    M81 and M82, by Alvaro Ibanez Perez
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    Great Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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    Eye On The Sky Hubble views spiral galaxy as part of star formation survey

    Spiral galaxy NGC 1300, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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    The shape of galaxies: reconfiguring Hubble’s tuning fork

    The Cigar Galaxy M82, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).
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    The Triangulum Galaxy, as seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO
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    How to observe our neighbouring galaxies

    Three images of NGC 2770 from early 2008 show the rare occurrence of two supernovae. Credit: ESO
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    The Local Group of galaxies only contains three spirals, our own Milky Way, M31 and M33. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library
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    The Local Group: a guide to our galaxy’s neighbourhood

    Active galaxy TXS 0128. Image credit: Lister, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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    A gravitationally lensed view of SPT0418-47, the most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever observed. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al.
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