Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pisces (Psc)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7537  ·  NGC 7541
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NGC 7541 & NGC 7537, Gary Imm
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NGC 7541 & NGC 7537

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NGC 7541 & NGC 7537, Gary Imm
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NGC 7541 & NGC 7537

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This image captures a pair of rarely imaged galaxies located in the constellation of Pisces at a declination of +5 degrees. Both galaxy disks are somewhat disturbed. They could be gravitationally impacting each other but they do not seem to be close enough together according to the distance estimates.

The larger galaxy on the left, NGC 7541, is located 100 million light years away. It spans about 3 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 90,000 light years.

NGC 7537 is a bit further away, at 125 million light years, and a bit smaller, at a diameter of 70,000 light years.

Both of these galaxy disks look very interesting. NGC 7541 is asymmetric and has an odd dust lane are to the right of the core. The arms are somewhat mottled and show signs of bright star clusters throughout the disk. NGC 7537 has a more symmetric disk, with signs of rings in the galaxy arms.

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