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IC 4970 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pavo. It is 212 million light-years from Earth and is interacting with the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872.
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IC 4970 is located a few arc-seconds away from the much larger barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872, and the two are known to be interacting with each other
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     7 years ago 

    Woow, its beautiful :)

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         7 years ago 

        Interesting! Thank you for sharing.

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