The galaxy is at a distance of 47 million light-years from Earth.
Scientists using the very large telescope got a picture of the galaxy Messier 77. The galaxy has been published on the website of the European southern obseravtory.
Galaxy is one of the closest to us of the active galaxies, the most energetic and magnificent in its manifestations objects in the Universe. The nucleus of active galaxies often overshadow its brilliance all the other parts of your solar system together. These galaxies are among the brightest bodies in the Universe.
Messier 77 is located in the constellation of the whale in 47 million light-years from Earth. The Messier catalogue is one of the most distant galaxies. Messier himself believed that a bright object observed them through a telescope, a star cluster. However, with the development of technology observation, it was with certainty established that this galaxy, the diameter of which is about 100,000 light years. Messier 77 has also been found and one of the biggest galaxies of the catalog — its mass is so great that under the influence of gravity of neighboring galaxy deformed.
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