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HST Image of a Galaxy's Nucleus

This Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 7457, was taken on August 17, 1990 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera. The picture on the left with high contrast shows the central portion of the galaxy. Predictably, the density of the starry population smoothly increases toward the galactic center.

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