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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sideways Galaxy NGC 3628
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Sideways Galaxy NGC 3628
Explanation: Dark dust lanes cutting across the middle of this gorgeous island universe strongly hint that
NGC 3628
is a spiral galaxy seen
sideways
. About 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime
constellation Leo
, NGC 3628 also bears the distinction of being the only member of the well known
Leo triplet
of galaxies not in Charles Messier's
famous catalog
. Otherwise similar in size to our
Milky Way galaxy, the disk of NGC 3628 is clearly seen to fan out near the galaxy's edge. A faint arm of material also extends up and to the left in
this deep view
of the region. The distorted shape and
tidal tail
suggest that
NGC 3628
is interacting gravitationally with the other spiral galaxies in the Leo triplet,
M66
and
M65
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