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Five galaxy portraits by the Italian VST telescope

Five extraordinary galaxies are portrayed in new, glorious images by the VST, a telescope managed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) at the ESO Paranal observatory, Chile

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Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

The irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A

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Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, Chile.

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Credit: INAF/VST-SMASH/C. Tortora et al. (2024)


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