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Elliptical galaxy NGC 4365 in Virgo
author: ESA/ESO/Novapix
reference: a-gax43-65001
Image Size 300 DPI: 15 * 16 cm
The elliptical galaxy NGC 4365 is located about 55 million light-years from the earth. Astronomers have identified a huge number of "young" stellar clusters, only a few billion years old, inside this "old" elliptical galaxy, probably aged some 12 billion years. For the first time, it has been possible to identify several distinct periods of star-formation in a galaxy as old as this one.
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