Saturday 21 July 2007

SDSS Ref. No. 587733080277909545

A perfect example of an elliptical galaxy. Compare the apparent size of this galaxy with the size of the other galaxy located half of the distance between the centre of the image and the bottom left corner.

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587733080277909545

UPDATE: Identified as NGC 4686.

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