This image combined 3 hours of luminance exposures with 40 minutes of green and red and 60 minutes of blue exposures, for a total exposure time of 5 hours 20 minutes.
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| Galaxy Trio in Leo | |||||||||||||||||||
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| In the constellation Leo the Lion, a group of distant galaxies stands out supreme. These galaxies, termed M65 and M66 for their order in the Messier Catalog and NGC 3628, lie at a distance of 35 million light years. M65 is the at the lower left of this image with tight spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. M66, at the upper left, has had its spiral arms distorted, probably due to interaction with M65. NGC 3828, on the right, is an "edge-on" spiral galaxy, with a broad band of interstellar dust obscuring the central disk. For an inhabitant of any of these galaxies, the views of the other galaxies would be spectacular, covering as much of the sky as one of our constellations! This image combined 3 hours of luminance exposures with 40 minutes of green and red and 60 minutes of blue exposures, for a total exposure time of 5 hours 20 minutes. |
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| Music: Lion Sleeps Tonight | |
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