Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)
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Tadpole galaxy, 20170430, Geert Vandenbulcke
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From Wikipedia: The Tadpole Galaxy is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth toward the northern constellation Draco. Its most dramatic features are a massive trail of stars about 280,000 light-years long; the size of the galaxy has been attributed to a Galaxy merger with a smaller galaxy which is believed to have occurred about 100 million years ago. [2] The galaxy is filled with bright blue star clusters.

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Tadpole galaxy, 20170430, Geert Vandenbulcke

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