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Old 05-11-2016, 09:50 AM
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Nice image Mike & Trish,
It's an interesting galaxy too:

http://www.constellation-guide.com/n...spiral-galaxy/

NGC 1365 is the dominant member of the Fornax Cluster, a cluster of galaxies located in the direction of Fornax constellation. The galaxy is approximately 200,000 light years in diameter, which is twice the length of the Milky Way, and has roughly the same mass as our galaxy.

In 2013, scientists were able to measure the rotation speed of the galaxy’s central black hole, discovering that the supermassive black hole, which is about 2 million miles wide, rotates at nearly 84 percent of the speed of light, which means that the surface is spinning at nearly light speed.
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