Starfield. Optical image of stars in the constellation Cetus, the sea monster. North is at top. The bright star at upper centre is Diphda (Beta Ceti).

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Starfield. Optical image of stars in the constellation Cetus, the sea monster. North is at top. The bright star at upper centre is Diphda (Beta Ceti). Just below centre the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 247 is seen as an elongated pink smudge.

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Keywords: 247, astronomy, beta, ceti, cetus, cosmology, diphda, edge-, field, galaxy, monster, ngc, night, optical, science, sea, sky, space, spiral, star, starfield, stars, stellar