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Astrobin Debut pair of objects is located 60 million light years away in the constellation of Pisces at a declination of 0 degrees. These are small faint objects but they are worth a close examination in my opinion.
NGC 7667, also known as UGC 12578, is to the lower right in this image. This magnitude 14 galaxy spans 1.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 25,000 light years. It looks to be some kind of hybrid between a dwarf galaxy and a spiral galaxy. Distinct blue star clusters are seen, along with the remnant of (or beginning of) a bar. There seems to be a faint “arm” extending to the top. There is some question whether this object is actually NGC 7667, but enough sources call it that so I am sticking with it.
The edge-on spiral galaxy to the upper left is UGC 12589. At 500 million light years away, it is almost an order of magnitude further away than NGC 7667. This is a large galaxy, almost 200,000 light years in diameter. I love the wildly wavy and distorted shape of its disk. It is likely interacting with a face-on companion to the upper left, galaxy 2MASX J23250382+0001068, which is about the same distance away. Distortion and star streams are seen in both of these galaxies.
Looking at the Astrobin mouseover, I think it is incredible, and hard to believe, that two objects which are an order of magnitude apart in their distance to us appear to me to be about the same distance away, based upon the detail that I see. I know it is just an illusion, but it is a fascinating one.
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