UGC 7321 Starlight (IMAGE)

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UGC 7321 Starlight

Caption

Colour image of the starlight emitted by a nearby spiral galaxy called UGC 7321. Stars in this galaxy lie in a disc, similar to that of our galaxy, the Milky Way. We see this disc nearly perfectly edge-on. Other sources in the image are foreground or background objects (galaxies and stars), unrelated to galaxy UGC 7321.

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Credit: M. Fumagalli/T. Theuns/S. Berry

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