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M87: Elliptical Galaxy with Jet
This picture shows a lot of stars, that are not really stars but more like spiral galaxies it is described as majestic winding arms of little stars, or gas, and made by dust rotate in a flat disk like a bulging galactic nucleus swirl. on the other hand these elliptical galaxies seem to be very much like each other. They all are lacking the gas and the dust necessary to form new stars and they are randomly swarming older stars in the area this is what form the ellipsoidal or oblong shape. Still other galaxies are also able to be seen in this picture like the large Virgo Cluster that we can see also called NGC 4478 that is in the center and also NGC 4476 which is close to the right edge.
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