Galaxy NGC 1365 & The Fornax Galaxy Cluster | ESO
At the lower-right is the elegant barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1365 and to the left the big elliptical NGC 1399. The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest of such groupings beyond our Local Group of galaxies. This new VLT Survey Telescope image shows the central part of the cluster in great detail.
Distance: 62 million light-years
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Acknowledgement: Aniello Grado and Luca Limatola
Release Date: April 13, 2016
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