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ESA uses SkyCenter image as Ground-Based Reference
Monday, February 6, 2012
The European Space Agency (ESA) used the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter's image of the barred spiral galaxy,NGC 1073, to transition from a "ground-based" reference to a recently released Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image. The video starts zoomed out, showing the constellation in which NGC 1073 resides
, and slowly zooms in to the exquisite detail, though narrow field, of the HST image.