From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 1232 face-on. Nearly 200,000 light-years across, the big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located some 47 million light-years away in the flowing southern constellation of Eridanus.
Image Credit: Neil Corke
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The Small Magellanic Cloud // Tryggve Dyrvik
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M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
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