File:Elliptical Galaxy in the Antlia Cluster (noirlab2501e).jpg

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Elliptical galaxy NGC 3258, found within a larger image of the Antlia Cluster — a group of at least 230 galaxies located about 130 million light-years away.

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English: Elliptical galaxy NGC 3258, found within a larger image of the Antlia Cluster — a group of at least 230 galaxies located about 130 million light-years away. This image was taken with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
Date 1 January 2025 (upload date)
Source Elliptical Galaxy in the Antlia Cluster
Author Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
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