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current	06:16, 28 March 2022		3,105 × 3,163 (2.22 MB)	commons>Fabian RRRR	== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information \|description={{en\|1='''More Than Meets the Eye Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies approximately 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The lane of dust threading its way across NGC 7172 — which is viewed side-on in this image — is obscuring the luminous heart of the galaxy, making NGC 7172 appe...

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Source	ESA/Hubble
Credit/Provider	ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. J. Rosario, A. Barth Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
Short title	More Than Meets the Eye
Image title	Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies approximately 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The lane of dust threading its way across NGC 7172— which is viewed side-on in this image — is obscuring the luminous heart of the galaxy, making NGC 7172 appear to be nothing more than a normal edge-on spiral galaxy. When astronomers inspected NGC 7172 across the electromagnetic spectrum they quickly discovered that there was more to it thanmeets the eye: NGC 7172 is a Seyfert galaxy — a type of galaxy with an intensely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by matter accreting onto a supermassive black hole. This image combines data from two sets of Hubble observations, both of which were proposed to study nearby active galactic nuclei. The image also combines data from two instruments — Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFCS).
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	06:00, 28 March 2022
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 23.0 (Windows)
File change date and time	20:46, 20 March 2022
Date and time of digitizing	10:22, 22 February 2022
Date metadata was last modified	21:46, 20 March 2022
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:3aa28306-8486-c145-9c0a-0fe9b5b01fb0
Keywords	NGC 7172
Contact information	https://esahubble.org ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States
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