NGC 247 and Friends

Posted on September 6, 2024  •  1 minutes  • 97 words

图文来源自：nasa. copyright: Eric Benson

About 70,000 light-years across, smaller than our Milky Way.only 11 million light-years distant it is nearby though.Tilted nearly edge-on as seen,it dominates this telescopic field of view toward thesouthern constellation Cetus.The pronounced void on one side of the galaxy’s disk recallsfor some its popular name, the Needle’s Eye galaxy.Many background galaxies are visible inthis sharp galaxy portrait,including the remarkable string of four galaxiesjust below and left of NGC 247 known as Burbidge’s Chain.are about 300 million light-years distant.NGC 247 itself is part of the Sculptor Group of galaxies along with.