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A Giant Fuzzball
by CritterKeeper on Mar.05, 2010, under General
NASA, ESA and Michael West (ESO)
Occasionally, I find huge furballs tucked away in the far corners of my house. They sit all by themselves, alone, after rolling around gathering up other furballs and assorted smaller pieces of fuzz. Like my huge fuzzballs, ESO 306–17 dominates its area of the universe. Explore the image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see plenty of other galaxies. Count up all those spiral galaxies. Those galaxies, however, are either farther away or, like the two bright galaxies at the bottom of the image, much closer than the giant elliptical galaxy.
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