Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1316

NGC 1316

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Original – NGC 1316 (also known as Fornax A) is a lenticular galaxy about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. NGC 1316 is a radio galaxy. It is the fourth-brightest radio source in the sky (as seen at 1400 MHz).

Reason

It has an overwhelming EV. Great picture.

Articles in which this image appears

NGC 1316, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures#Space

Creator

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team

• Support as nominator --LlamaAl (talk) 23:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support: Cosmology is becoming more and more relevant to people's lives in both scientific and artistic ways; this photo looks brilliant and you won't find an image of this NGC object of higher quality. Pirated windows 7 install disc (talk) 17:54, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

  User blocked as a sockpuppet. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

• Support High EV for the appropriate article. JJ Harrison (talk) 12:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support seems to be the best image available of this object. --Pine^✉ 18:17, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Only the absolutely unavoidable issues that our current best telescopic equipment for these images produce. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:12, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support - Also seriously cool! ceranthor 03:22, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Ngc1316 hst.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)