This image captures a number of
Astrobin Debut Objects located in the constellation of Triangulum at a declination of +36 degrees.
UGC 1651, at image center, is the most studied galaxy here. It is a magnitude 13 galaxy located 0.5 billion light years away. It spans 1 arc-minute in our apparent view, which corresponds to a large diameter of 150,000 light years. The odd look of this elliptical galaxy is due to a strong pair of jets blasting from its core in opposite directions. I couldn’t find another image where the evidence of these jets is captured in an optical view. These jets are most easily seen in the VLA radio telescope image seen in the inset of the mouseover.
Many other interesting galaxies are seen in the background, with some of them identified on the annotated mouseover. The most interesting of these is the blue barred spiral to the lower left, PGC 8256. This galaxy is much closer at 230 million light years away and is only 40,000 light years in diameter. It has an interesting strong arm extending up. Based on its size, shape, and color, it looks like it could be a
Magellanic galaxy.
The interesting thin edge-on spiral galaxy to the upper right does not have a designation that I could find.
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