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English: Messier object 87 by Hubble space telescope.

This is the galactic core shown as a composite image of visible and infrared observations in order to resolve the blue jet.

The field of view is about 1.5 arc minutes across, the jet extends to about a third of an arc minute (or 20 arc seconds) with a width of about 2 arc seconds (absolute length 5 kly at a distance of 53 Mly
).
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Source http://wikisky.org/snapshot?img_size=&img_res=&ra=12.5138&de=12.3896&angle=0.0293&projection=tan&rotation=0.0&survey=astrophoto&img_id=905632&width=2160&height=2160&img_borders=&interpolation=bicubic&jpeg_quality=0.8
Author en:NASA, en:STScI, en:WikiSky
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(Reusing this file)		 PD-HUBBLE

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Composite image of visible and infrared observations of galaxy M87 by Hubble Space Telescope

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