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A bright sphere at image center becomes more diffuse and elliptical moving outward from the sphere. One bright foreground stars shines just in the upper-left quadrant of the image. Background stars shine through the galaxy.

Hubble image of Messier 49

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the fuzzy orb of light that is the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 49 filled with an incredible 200 billion stars.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Blakenslee, P Cote et al.
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