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Hubble’s Hunting Dog Galaxy
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Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242, shown here as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies some 30 million light-years from us. At this distance from Earth, actually not all that far on a cosmic scale, NGC 4242 is visible to anyone armed with even a basic telescope, as British astronomer William Herschel found when he discovered the galaxy in 1788.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble’s Hunting Dog Galaxy. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000017.
