NGC 1365 is located about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. At 200,000 light-years across (nearly twice the length of the Milky Way). The dense nebula at its nucleus creates the perfect conditions for new stars to form as gas and dust contract and eventually collapse inward. NGC 1365's supermassive central black hole rotates close to the speed of light and has a mass more than 2 million times greater than that of our Sun. Kevin Morefield captured this image in December 2022 from El Sauce Observatory in Chile using a PlaneWave 17-inch Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope, a PlaneWave L-600 mount, and an ATIK Apx60 CMOS camera. Follow us for more great astrophotography, and subscribe to S&T for astronomy and space exploration news.