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Messier Monday: The Most Blueshifted Messier Object, M86 bit.ly/166KXqA

Image credit: Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] Obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint Project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center / California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.