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Image of the Month - December 2009

December 2009

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06/12/09 - 22:23 GMT

Liverpool Telescope

St George's Preparatory School

Here we have the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1637. With the galaxy appearing face-on to us, we can see the spiral arms structure clearly. NGC 1637 is located around 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus.

NGC 1637
Download LTImage version of observation: 1649h000.hfit