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Messier Gallery
Return to original image of M87
M87, an 8th magnitude elliptical galaxy in Virgo.
The jet is the small projection at 8:00 next to the nucleus. A smaller jet points in the opposite direction, but is much too faint to be imaged by most amateur equipment.
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