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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2025 December 4   
      
                              Galaxies in the Furnace   
             Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team   
      
      Explanation: An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous   
      elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away   
      toward Fornax, the southern constellation of the Furnace. Investigating   
      the startling sight, astronomers suspect the giant galaxy of colliding   
      with smaller neighbor NGC 1317 seen just right of the large galaxy's   
      center, producing far flung star streams in loops and shells. Light   
      from their close encounter would have reached Earth some 100 million   
      years ago. In the sharp telescopic image, the central regions of NGC   
      1316 and NGC 1317 appear separated by over 100,000 light-years. Complex   
      dust lanes visible within also indicate that NGC 1316 is itself the   
      result of a merger of galaxies in the distant past. Found on the   
      outskirts of the Fornax galaxy cluster, NGC 1316 is known as Fornax A.   
      One of the visually brightest of the Fornax cluster galaxies it is one   
      of the strongest and largest celestial radio sources with radio   
      emission extending well beyond this one degree wide field-of-view.   
      
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