Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  NGC 4656  ·  NGC 4657
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The Whale and Hockey Stick, Gabe Shaughnessy
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The Whale and Hockey Stick

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The Whale and Hockey Stick

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The Whale (NGC 4631) and Hockey Stick (NGC 4656) galaxies are a pair in the constellation Canes Venatici. The Whale is only 25 million light years away and is a spiral galaxy, nearly seen edge-on and is similar in size to our Milky Way galaxy and even includes a companion elliptical galaxy (NGC 4627). The distorted shape of the hockey stick galaxy suggests these galaxies have had gravitational interactions in the past.

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The Whale and Hockey Stick, Gabe Shaughnessy

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