NGC 253 hosts a scaled-up version of Sgr A

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NGC 253 hosts a scaled-up version of Sgr A

Post by bystander » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:20 pm

Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories
Astronomers conclude that the center of galaxy NGC 253 hosts a scaled-up version of Sagittarius A.
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Astronomy.com - January 20, 2009
Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to uncover a host of new young, massive, and dusty stellar nurseries in nearby galaxy NGC 253. The center of this galaxy appears to harbor a twin of our own Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects/images/ngc253.jpg
NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the sky, and also one of the dustiest. The whole galaxy is shown here as observed with the WFI instrument, while the insert shows a close-up of the central parts as observed with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope and the ACS on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESO

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