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Hello out there, M85!

At 50 million light-years away, this galaxy contains about 400 billion stars! Most of these stars are very old, but the central region is home to a batch of comparatively younger stars – just a few billion years old: https://go.nasa.gov/3OSo0Fu
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Hubble Gazes at a Hazy Galaxy

This moody image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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in reply to NASA

MrShoggoth
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- So this image is 50 million years old? I bet a lot’s changed. It’s probably full of Dyson spheres and planet-eating dudes.

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