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NGC1365 is a large barred spiral galaxy and is one of the most impressive examples of this kind in
the sky.
The central bar is composed mainly of older yellow stars but it terminates abruptly into the long
straigt arms where the light from young blue supergiants is dominating. Clearly visible is also
many pink emmission nebulae where new stars are continually born, typically concentrated along the
arms where the rotating density wave compresses the galaxy's gas and dust.
NGC 1365 located in the Fornax cluster of galaxies about 60 million ly away.
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