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NGC 891 - and many background galaxies, Thomas Richter

NGC 891 - and many background galaxies

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NGC 891 is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 6, 1784. The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster.

You can see a lot of galaxies in the background (about 400 million light-years away !).

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NGC 891 - and many background galaxies, Thomas Richter

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