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Astrobin Debut Object is a spiral galaxy located 95 million light years away in the constellation of Lepus at a declination of -22 degrees. It is a magnitude 11 galaxy which spans 3 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 80,000 light years. We are looking at the disk about halfway between face-on and edge-on.
An inner bright lens surrounds the core. Distinct dark lanes are seen in the outer disk. Bright blue star clouds are visible in the rim of the outer disk, which is very unusual given that no such clouds are seen in the inner disk.
The most special part of this image to me is the dark void "wedge" in the lower half of the outer disk, just inside of the blue star clouds at 6 0'clock. In fact, it looks like both regions of star clouds in the outer disk rim (6 and 2 o'clock) are accompanied by dark void areas just inside of each of them. It seems likely that the star clouds are somehow related to these dark void regions.
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