These 3
Astrobin Debut Objects are located in the constellation of Taurus at a declination of +1 degree. They are all located at a similar distance away from us, between 160 and 170 million light years away.
The galaxy on the right side is NGC 1589, a magnitude 13 spiral galaxy. This is a huge galaxy. The bright portion alone is larger than our Milky Way at 140,000 light years in diameter. The outer faint reaches extend out to 200,000 light years. Its wide dust lane is magnificent. Image Revision B compares this image with the Hubble image.
On the left side are the elliptical pair of NGC 1587 (mag 13, bottom) and NGC 1588 (mag 14, top). NGC 1587 is the larger galaxy at 90,000 light years in diameter. These two appear to be interacting – the plume of NGC 1587 extends to the right side, while the plume of NGC 1588 extends to the left. A faint star stream bridge appears to connect them, although that is hard to determine.
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