NGC1398 through the Dark Energy Camera (IMAGE)

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

NGC1398 through the Dark Energy Camera

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This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy was taken with the Dark Energy Camera. This galaxy lives in the Fornax cluster, roughly 65 million light-years from Earth. It is 135,000 light-years in diameter, just slightly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, and contains more than 100 billion stars.

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Dark Energy Survey

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