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Have a Cosmic Christmas! Zoom into Galaxy NGC 4696 | Hubble

Have a Cosmic Christmas! Zoom into Galaxy NGC 4696 | Hubble

This video zooms on elliptical galaxy NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster (galaxy cluster Abell 3526) as seen with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. 

Distance: 120 million light years


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2 and S. Brunier

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 17, 2016


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