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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Spiral galaxy NGC 1232. Composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1232 based on three separate exposures in ultra-violet, blue and red light. The central areas contain older stars of reddish colour, while the spiral arms are populated by young blue stars and many star-forming regions. A distorted companion galaxy can be seen on the left side. NGC 1232 is located 20-degrees south of the celestial equator, in the constellation Eridanus (The River), about 100 million light-years away. Image obtained by the FORS (Focal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph) instrument on ESO's (European Southern Observatory) Very Large Telescope (VLT), on 21st September 1998.
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