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                                NGC 247 and Friends   
         Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition - Eric Benson, Processing -   
                                   Dietmar Hager   
      
      Explanation: About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral   
      galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million   
      light-years distant it is nearby though. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen   
      from our perspective, it dominates this telescopic field of view toward   
      the southern constellation Cetus. The pronounced void on one side of   
      the galaxy's disk recalls for some its popular name, the Needle's Eye   
      galaxy. Many background galaxies are visible in this sharp galaxy   
      portrait, including the remarkable string of four galaxies just below   
      and left of NGC 247 known as Burbidge's Chain. Burbidge's Chain   
      galaxies are about 300 million light-years distant. NGC 247 itself is   
      part of the Sculptor Group of galaxies along with shiny spiral NGC 253.   
      
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