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Astrobin Debut Object is a beautiful barred ring spiral galaxy located 340 million light years away in the constellation of Pegasus at a declination of +22 degrees. It spans 1.7 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a large diameter of 170,000 light years.
We are viewing this galaxy about halfway between edge-on and face-on. I like the faint bar, the pseudo-ring around the inner region, and the numerous clumps of star clouds around the ring and throughout the arms. The arm extending from the left end of the bar is much longer than the arm extending from the right end.
This galaxy appears to have been disturbed by something, but the culprit is not the orange spiral below it (LEDA 69282). At 0.8 billion light years away, it is too far away from NGC 7321 to be interacting with it.
The tiny yellow seen just to the lower left of NGC 7321, looking a bit like a comma, is 2MASS J22363215+2136437. It is not interacting with NGC 7321 either, since it is even further away at 4 billion light years. Although it is tiny in this image, it is the size of our Milky Way.
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