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NGC253 Silver Dollar Galaxy, Ed Albin
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NGC253 Silver Dollar Galaxy

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Here's a look at the "Silver Coin Galaxy," a beautiful collection of distant suns located more than 11 million light years from Earth. I captured this image with my C14 telescope on the night of October 11th using a two hour exposure constructed from an integration of 60 two minute exposures. Astronomers speculate that this galaxy has a supermassive black hole, with a mass of about five million times that of our own Sun, at its core...

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NGC253 Silver Dollar Galaxy, Ed Albin

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