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Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Benedetti and Daniele Ceniti
(AeW Observatory)
Explanation:
This wide,
sharp telescopic view reveals
galaxies
scattered beyond the stars and faint
dust
nebulae
of the Milky Way at the northern boundary of the high-flying constellation
Pegasus.
Prominent at the upper right is
NGC 7331.
A mere 50 million light-years away, the large spiral is one
of the brighter galaxies not included in
Charles
Messier's famous 18th century catalog.
The disturbed looking group of galaxies
at the lower left is
well-known as Stephan's Quintet.
About 300 million light-years distant, the quintet
dramatically illustrates a multiple galaxy collision, its
powerful, ongoing
interactions posed for a brief cosmic snapshot.
On the sky, the
quintet and
NGC 7331 are separated by about half a degree.
Today:
Partial Solar Eclipse
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Publications with keywords: interacting galaxies
Publications with words: interacting galaxies
See also:
- APOD: 2025 March 12 Á NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy
- Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
- APOD: 2025 January 6 Á Colliding Spiral Galaxies from Webb and Hubble
- Shell Galaxies in Pisces
- APOD: 2024 July 15 Á The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
- Unraveling NGC 3169
- APOD: 2023 October 24 Á Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble