Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  NGC 4656
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Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies, Nikita Misiura
Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies
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Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies

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Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies

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Barely visible in this image (because of a relatively short exposure), there are actually two just recently (in 2015) discovered tidal streams around Whale galaxy. Here is some more decent photos and a nice small article about them (plus there is a link to a whole scientific paper on that page).

I tried to show these streams in Rev B in negative.

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Description: Tidal streams around Whale galaxy

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Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies, Nikita Misiura