Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  HD96363  ·  NGC 3521  ·  PGC 1148913  ·  PGC 1149859  ·  PGC 1151550  ·  PGC 1151710  ·  PGC 1157159  ·  PGC 135771  ·  PGC 135772  ·  PGC 33536
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NGC 3521 and its satellites, José Joaquín Pérez
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NGC 3521 and its satellites

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NGC 3521 and its satellites

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NGC 3521 is a flocculent spiral galaxy located around 26 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Leo.

The galaxy extends some 50,000 light-years, it features characteristic patchy, irregular spiral arms laced with dust, star forming regions, and clusters of young, blue stars.

This image also finds NGC 3521 embedded in gigantic bubble-like shells. The shells are likely tidal debris, streams of stars torn from satellite galaxies that have undergone mergers with NGC 3521 in the distant past (Extracted from CHART32.de)

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NGC 3521 and its satellites, José Joaquín Pérez