Three Lions in the Cosmic Zoo
This beautiful photo was taken with a new telescope called the VST. It shows three galaxies that are known as the Leo Triplet. Large telescopes can normally study only one of these galaxies at a time. But the VST can get all three members of the group in a single picture!
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ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute
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