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NGC 6744 (Caldwell 101) – The Milky Way’s Big Brother
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This is the first image from the CDK24 I placed at Obstech’s El Sauce observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert last summer. It’s the quintessential barred spiral galaxy, and it’s located in the southern Pavo constellation roughly 24 million light years from Earth.
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