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Description: Messier 87 (M87), a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster as imaged in a wide field view from the Hubble Space Telescope (detail of center "jet").
Title: M87 optical image
Credit: http://astro-canada.ca/_en/photo690.php?a4201_m87
Author: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope
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License: Public domain
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