The Fiddlehead Galaxy NGC 772, 106 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc772

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#NGC772 aka #Arp78 or #Fiddlehead
#spiralgalaxies #SpiralGalaxy

Not funny to try to imagine that white blob is NOT a white blob, it's many suns, when you zoom far in.
The only way to zoom way in, is to use your imagination.
Being a human, we have that skill, ⭕it's 200,000 lyr in diameter

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Thx 4 orig Uni Sci boost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_772

106 million lyr away, discovered by German-British astronomer #WilliamHerschel #Herschel in 1785

Spiral galaxy NGC 772, 106 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc772

CFHT Astronomy Image Of The Month

Galaxies in Aries

Data obtained using the MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; Image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum); Copyright © 2025 CFHT

https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/AIOM/English/CFHT-Coelum-AIOM-Aug2025.html

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