This pair of
Astrobin Debut Objects are 2 interesting magnitude 13 LINER spiral galaxies located 210 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of -2 degrees. Each galaxy spans 1.8 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a Milky Way like diameter of 120,000 light years. Both galaxies seem somewhat disturbed to me, so perhaps they are close enough to each other to be interacting.
The disk of NGC 5183, at lower right, is about 25 degrees from edge-on to our view. The disk has an odd structure – a mid-region ring and diffuse outer disk, except for a single strong arm with a few bright blue star clouds.
The disk of NGC 5184, at upper left, is about halfway between edge-on and face-on. This galaxy appears less disturbed than its partner, although a few bright blue star clouds are also visible in this disk.
Many other galaxies, including NGC 5192, are seen in the background.
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