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Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager
Explanation:
This wide,
sharp
telescopic view reveals
galaxies
scattered beyond the stars 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.
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Of the Day
Publications with keywords: interacting galaxies - spiral galaxy
Publications with words: interacting galaxies - spiral galaxy
See also:
- APOD: 2025 June 8 B Facing NGC 3344
- APOD: 2025 June 1 B UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble
- APOD: 2025 May 26 B Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb
- Curly Spiral Galaxy M63
- Messier 101
- APOD: 2025 April 21 B Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb
- APOD: 2025 April 7 B NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy