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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
NGC 2997 from VLT
Explanation:
Add another 8-meter telescope to the list of modern optical telescope giants [ http://www.seds.org…]. Kueyen achieved a first-light photograph of a bright star on March 1, ahead of schedule. The above picture [ http://www.eso.org/…] of spiral galaxy NGC 2997 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] was taken with Antu [ http://www.eso.org/…], the first of the four planned Very Large Telscopes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (VLTs) being built in Chile [ http://www.eso.org/…] for the European Southern Observatory. NGC 2997 [ http://starchild.gs…] is a thin spiral galaxy [ http://www.seds.org…] tilted about 45 degrees with a bright compact nucleus and prominent lanes of dark dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
Credit and Copyright:
European Southern Observatory [ http://www.eso.org/]
keyword:
galaxy
keyword:
VLT
keyword:
spiral
facet_where:
Chile
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_what:
ESO
facet_what:
VLT
facet_what:
Very Large Telescope
facet_what:
New General Catalogue (NGC)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap990310

NGC 2997 from VLT
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