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ngc 7479 from HLA, andrealuna

ngc 7479 from HLA

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ngc 7479 from HLA, andrealuna

ngc 7479 from HLA

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ngc 7479 in Pegasus.

data from Hubble Space Telescope

processing: Andrealuna Pizzetti

ngc 7479, classified as SB(s)c Seyfert 2 galaxy, has an active supermarssive black hole in its nucleus. This guy is obscured by a thick torus (donut shape) of dust and gas that makes the direct observation of its emission difficult, that's why astronomer usually analize the emission that's reprocessed by the torus to better understand what's going on and the characteristics and the shape of the torus itself.

All of this just to say that this is the galaxy I've started to analyze for my project here at Clemson University, and now I'm even more in love with the Universe.

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ngc 7479 from HLA, andrealuna