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Cannes Galaxy

The Cannes Group of Galaxies or M106 is at a distance of +-25 million light-years away from Earth.

Due to unusual x-rays emission lines detected, it is suspected that part of the galaxy is falling into a supermassive black hole in the center. It has a water vapor megamaser, the equivalent of a laser operating in microwave instead of light and on a galactic scale, sprouting out of it's center.

This is a bit like a clowns flower that squirts water out on a galactic scale.

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Picture taken with my old DSLR.