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This image of the disk galaxy NGC 7814 could almost be an edge-on view of our own Milky Way.
NGC 7814 is a disk galaxy not too different from our own Milky Way galaxy. From our perspective here on Earth we see it edge on. As a result, we cannot determine whether it has a spiral structure. But in the image taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we can very clearly see the dust in its disk and its bright central bulge. The brightest globular clusters associated with NGC 7814 can also be seen; they appear as point sources near the galaxy.
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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