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NGC 1068 and Nuclear Region – Wide Field/Planetary Camera — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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NGC 1068 and Nuclear Region – Wide Field/Planetary Camera

October 4, 1990 · NASA

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A picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1068, taken with the 0.9-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory shows the bright nucleus. The inset is an HST WF/PC narrow band image which shows clouds of ionized gas in the very center of the galaxy.