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Luminous red nova 2021biy in NGC 4631 galaxy: 13 Mar. 2021.

04/09/2021

Luminous red nova 2021biy in NGC 4631 galaxy: an image – 13 Mar. 2021

We observed the luminous red nova (LRN) 2021biy in the beautiful NGC 4631 galaxy: here it is our image. The image above comes from the average of nine, 300-second exposures, unfiltered, remotely taken with...

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08/23/2012

NGC 4631 – CVn

NGC 4631, also known as “The Whale”, was discovered in 1787 by W. Herschel. Its distance in estimated in 30 millions of light years. Here, it was imaged with the Planewave 17 unit, part...