Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 87  ·  NGC 4486  ·  Virgo Galaxy
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Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come? (M87 and its Jet), Timothy Martin
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Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come? (M87 and its Jet)

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Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come? (M87 and its Jet), Timothy Martin
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Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come? (M87 and its Jet)

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Here I tried to capture the jet streaming from the black hole made famous by the Event Horizon Telescope. I also wanted to include as many of the 12,000 globular clusters surrounding M87 as possible. Many of the objects that look like stars in this image are part of that group of clusters. I also wanted to see if I could get close to the quality and style presented in the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shot depicting these things. It's up to you to decide how well I did.

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