Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 2684  ·  IC 2694  ·  IC 2704  ·  IC 2708  ·  IC 2745  ·  IC 2752  ·  IC 2754  ·  IC 2761  ·  IC 2762  ·  IC 2765  ·  IC 2769  ·  IC 2782  ·  IC 2787  ·  IC 2799  ·  IC 2804  ·  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628  ·  PGC 1408723  ·  PGC 1409059  ·  PGC 1410250  ·  PGC 1410338  ·  PGC 1412499  ·  PGC 1412622  ·  PGC 1412845  ·  PGC 1412848  ·  PGC 1414400  ·  And 79 more.
Leo Triplet and Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG), Arvid Emtegren
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Leo Triplet and Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG)

Leo Triplet and Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG), Arvid Emtegren
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Leo Triplet and Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG)

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Left of the hamburger NGC 3628 is a very faint tidal tail of stars. In 2014 it was discovered that at the end of this stream there is a dwarf galaxy with independent rotation. A tidal dwarf galaxy, TDG:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/144

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Leo Triplet and Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG), Arvid Emtegren