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Coiled Galaxy

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Original – Coiled galaxy has an eye-like object at its center which is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. The galaxy, called NGC 1097 and located 50 million light-years away, is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars.

Reason

Finest quality picture

Articles in which this image appears

List of spiral galaxies NGC 1097

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Herald talk with me 12:40, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
• Support -- Nice picture. sure want to see it as an FP '''Johncy''' (talk) 13:56, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
• Support Brandmeister^talk 20:46, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
• Support Holy extra long captions Batman! The caption is waaaaaaayyyyyyy too long to be any good but I'm going to support anyway because it's such a great image and with the assumption that someone will come along and trim the caption to a reasonable length. Cat-fivetc ---- 02:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
  •  Done Nice suggestion....Herald talk with me 07:38, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
• Support high quality image -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 20:34, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Coiled Galaxy.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:49, 17 November 2013 (UTC)