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English: Circinus Galaxy is a seyfert galaxy 13 million ly away in the constellation of Circinus - One of the twelve large galaxies in the "Council of Giants" surrounding the Local Group in the Local Sheet - Not noticed until 1977 because it is obscured by Milky Way's galactic dust - The second closest Seyfert after Centaurus A, is undergoing tumultuous changes as rings of gas are being ejected from the galaxy nucleus -
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The Circinus Galaxy as imaged by the HST. Not related objects have been edited out.

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