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Galaxy NGC 3370 is a dusty spiral galaxy located some 98 million light years away toward the constellation Leo. The center of NGC 3370 shows well delineated dust lanes and an uncommonly ill-defined nucleus. This view of NGC 3370 was obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope using the Advanced Camera for surveys and is sharp enough to identify individual Cepheid variable stars in the galaxy. Cepheid variable stars are used to establish extragalactic distances. In 1994, a Type Ia sypernova exploded in NGC 3370.
Image courtesy of Space Telescope Science Institute. |
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