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Amateur astronomers and NASA capture galaxy eating another galaxy

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NASA has published this image showing the M51 spiral galaxy—located 30 million light years away from Earth—eating a tiny galaxy like a hamster would it a tiny burrito, which you can see on its upper left.* It was obtained using data from the Chandra X-Ray space observatory and optical data from amateur telescopes on the ground.

* The tiny galaxy, not the tiny burrito.


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