Spiral galaxy NGC 7793 in Sculptor

by: ESO/Novapix
Reference: a-gax77-93002
Date: 2009-04-05

NGC 7793 is at a distance of about 12 million light years; it is a member of the Sculptor group, where the galaxies are few in number and well separated in space. Image taken with one of the workhorses of the ESO Paranal Observatory, the FORS instrument, attached to the Very Large Telescope.

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