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An image of the Sculptor Galaxy created using images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO / E. Congiu et al. It’s not every day we get to see a visual of ...

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This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this ...

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