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The image at right is Hubble's close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy's core, the bright whitish region at far right. An image of the entire galaxy, taken by the European Southern Observatory's Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPG 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile, is shown at left. The white box outlines Hubble's view. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell, B. Whitmore, M. Dopita, and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee/European Southern Observatory

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