Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  HD111257  ·  NGC 4698
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NGC 4698, Adam Block
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This is one of my favorite galaxies. It is kind of a Saturn galaxy- a galaxy with "rings". The inner dust lanes echo the circular star streams of the outer spiral arms. 
At 55 million light years away NGC 4698 is part of the Virgo galaxy cluster. One thing that makes this galaxy a bit odd is that astronomers found that the nucleus and gas and rotates perpendicular to the disk of the galaxy. You can almost see a bit of a vertical glow that hints at this. 

LRGB  5.5 : 3.3 : 3.3 : 3.3 Hours

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NGC 4698, Adam Block