PULL · 19 OCT 1997

This was
your sky.

The Heart Of NGC 4261

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COSMIC MESSAGE

The heart of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4261 holds a secret: a massive black hole. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows gas and dust swirling into it, likely the remnants of a smaller galaxy that fell in ages ago. Such galactic collisions might be how quasars, active galactic nuclei, are created.

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The Heart Of NGC 4261
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The Heart Of NGC 4261
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Move your cursor across the card to tilt it. Holographic foil ripples through the edges and surface as you go.

ZODIAC CONTEXT
LIBRA

In tropical astrology, 19 OCT 1997 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 19 OCT 1997.

THE ALMANAC FOR 19 OCT 1997
DAY
Sunday
MOON
Waning gibbous, 91% lit
POSITION
Day 292 of 365
METEOR SHOWER
Orionid shower, peaks in 2 days