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Peer into the exposed heart of a galaxy in mesmerizing new image

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Peer into the exposed heart of a galaxy in mesmerizing new image

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A new image shows the exposed heart of a distant galaxy in stunning detail, demonstrating the promise of a recent addition to the Very Large Telescope. 

The image shows the galaxy NGC 1097, which is located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax. The image was taken by the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS), which was recently installed on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a telescope located at Cerro Paranal in northern Chile and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Set to operate for at least 10 years, ERIS will scan the universe in infrared, studying solar system objects, exoplanets and even distant galaxies like NGC 1097. 



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