Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  NGC 613
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NGC 613, Jochen Maes
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NGC 613, Jochen Maes

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NGC 613 is a spiral galaxy in the Sculptor constellation, around 67 million light years from earth.

The bright core region in the image is the result of there being a dense concentration of stars in said region, of which the combined light of course makes for additional brightness. At the center of it all however, is a very powerful source of radio emissions which at the same time hardly emits any optical or infrared emissions (so it’s “invisible” if you will). This is almost certainly a supermassive black hole. Estimations put the mass of said black hole at roughly 40 million solar masses (about tenfold of what we see in our own Milky Way).

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35x900" Luminance
22x900” Red
25x900” Green
22x900” Blue
12x900” HA

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NGC 613, Jochen Maes