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The Hubble telescope took a picture of the “cosmic snowflake”

Телескоп Hubble сделал снимок "космической снежинки"Galaxy is in the constellation of the eagle.

The Hubble telescope transmitted to earth the next space.

It is possible to see spiral galaxy NGC 6814. It is located at a distance of 75 million light years from Earth. Photos of the galaxy was published on the official website of the telescope.

The nucleus of the galaxy NGC 6814 is very bright. Scientists say that this suggests that NGC 6814 is a Seyfert galaxy. These galaxies have an active center that ejects gas with speed up to several thousand kilometers per second. In the center of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole, whose mass exceeds the mass of the Sun is about 18 million times. Around the black hole is spinning a giant disk of cold gas at speeds of almost 1.5 million kilometers per hour.

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