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Thilker

Astronomer credited as principal investigator of Hubble observing programme #18103, a survey of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.

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Hubble photographs a Virgo spiral whose core rotates at right angles to its disk

The new Hubble picture of NGC 4698 shows arms that stop short of the glowing center and a bulge tilted out of the disk, while the case that a small merger built that geometry rests on one short tail of hydrogen.

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