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| | Universe Today - Supernova in Galaxy NGC 1559 |
 | | From a very first analysis of their data, Wang and his colleagues found that SN 2005df resembles closely another supernova they had studied before, SN 2001el, whose explosion they showed was significantly asymmetric. |
 | | NGC 1559 is a SBc(s)-type spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years away, that weighs the equivalent of about 10,000 million of suns, and is about 7 times smaller than our Milky Way: on the sky, it measures about 4x2 arcmin2. |
 | | Like most galaxies, NGC 1559 probably contains a fl hole in its centre, which should have a mass that is equivalent to 300,000 suns. |
| www.universetoday.com /am/publish/supernova_2005dh_galaxy_ngc_1559.html?2482005 (688 words) |
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