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Astrobin Debut Object is a pair of spiral Seyfert galaxies located about 120 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of -5 degrees. Both galaxies have interesting arm structures that are quite different from each other. The distance data indicates that these galaxies are in the same neighborhood but not necessarily close enough to be interacting.
NGC 4593 is the barred galaxy at lower right. It is a magnitude 13.1 galaxy which spans 4 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a large diameter of 150,000 light years. The arms show the characteristics kinks of
VV rows. The small galaxy just to the left is MCG-01-32-033, also about the same distance away.
NGC 4602 is the galaxy at upper left. Its grand design spiral arm structure is beautiful to me but hard to trace because the disk is close to edge-on.
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