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Explanation:
A remarkable telescopic composition in yellow and blue,
this
scene features a trio of interacting galaxies almost 90 million
light-years away, toward the
constellation
Virgo.
On the right, two,
spiky,
foreground Milky Way stars echo the
trio galaxy hues, a reminder that stars in our own
galaxy are like those in the distant
island
universes.
With sweeping spiral arms and obscuring dust lanes,
NGC 5566 is enormous, about 150,000 light-years across.
Just above it lies small, blue NGC 5569.
Near center, the third galaxy, NGC 5560,
is multicolored and apparently
stretched and distorted by its interaction with NGC 5566.
The galaxy trio is also included in Halton Arp's 1966
Atlas
of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 286.
Of course, such
cosmic interactions are now
appreciated as
a common part of the
evolution of
galaxies.
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Publications with keywords: interacting galaxies
Publications with words: interacting galaxies
See also:
- APOD: 2025 August 19 Á Giant Galaxies in Pavo
- APOD: 2025 June 1 Á UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble
- 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