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                                 2022 November 16   
      
                              In the Arms of NGC 1097   
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby, Mark Hanson   
      
      Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45   
      million light-years away in the heated constellation Fornax. Its blue   
      spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this   
      colorful galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small   
      companion galaxy above and right of center, about 40,000 light-years   
      from the spiral's luminous core. That's not NGC 1097's only peculiar   
      feature, though. This very deep exposure hints of faint, mysterious   
      jets, seen to extend well beyond the bluish arms. In fact, four faint   
      jets are ultimately recognized in optical images of NGC 1097. The jets   
      trace an X centered on the galaxy's nucleus, but probably don't   
      originate there. Instead, they could be fossil star streams, trails   
      left over from the capture and disruption of a much smaller galaxy in   
      the large spiral's ancient past. A Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1097's nucleus   
      also harbors a supermassive black hole.   
      
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