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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2022 December 22   
      
                        NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh   
      
      Explanation: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island   
      universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million   
      light-years away toward the faint but heated constellation Fornax, NGC   
      1365 is a dominant member of the well-studied Fornax Cluster of   
      galaxies. This impressively sharp color image shows the intense,   
      reddish star forming regions near the ends of central bar and along the   
      spiral arms, with details of the obscuring dust lanes cutting across   
      the galaxy's bright core. At the core lies a supermassive black hole.   
      Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the   
      galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom   
      and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: northern Saturn   
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