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Galaxy NGC 2082 in Dorado

author: Nasa/Esa/Novapix

reference: a-gax20-82001

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 16 cm

The richly textured spiral galaxy NGC 2082 is found about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish), deep in the southern sky. As seen here in a very detailed image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, filaments of dark dust splay across NGC 2082’s luminous curved arms and dense central bulge of stars. Hubble’s sharp vision also reveals many of the individual bright blue stars dotting the galaxy’s rather ragged spiral arms as well as many much more distant galaxies in the background.

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2010 - ACS - ASTRONOMY - DORADO - GALAXY - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - NGC 2082 - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - SPIRAL GALAXY - STAR -