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February 05, 2008 | | Comments 0

Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 — a cosmic fossil?

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. The small galaxies surrounding it are dubbed a fossil group.

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