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Dusty Neighbor NGC 247 is a Million Light-Years Closer Than Thought
[/caption] One of our celestial neighbors, the spiral galaxy NGC 247, just moved about a million light-years closer. Well, not really. But astronomers are retooling estimates of the distance to it, which was overestimated in the past partly because of the nearly edge-on tilt, shown above. The just-released image, from the Wide Field Imager on the … Continue reading "Dusty Neighbor NGC 247 is a Million Light-Years Closer Than Thought"
Anne Minard