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DescriptionM87 optical image.jpg	English: Messier 87 (M87), a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster as imaged in a wide field view from the Hubble Space Telescope (detail of center "jet").
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17:13, 12 June 2007	807 × 445 (43,777 bytes)	w:en:Halfblue (talk \| contribs)	([[Messier 87]] (M87), a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster as imaged in a wide field veiw from the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (detail of center "jet"). {{PD-USGov-NASA}} Original full image at [from http://astro-canada.ca/_en/photo690.php?a420)

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