Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)
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Hickson 35, Gary Imm
Hickson 35, Gary Imm

Hickson 35

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Hickson 35, Gary Imm
Hickson 35, Gary Imm

Hickson 35

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This Astrobin Debut Object is a cluster of 8 galaxies located 0.7 billion light years away in the constellation of Lynx at a declination of +45 degrees.  The larger galaxies here are each about 100,000 light years in diameter.

The 6 galaxies at top left are all members of Hickson 35.  The Hickson catalog is a collection of 100 galaxy clusters, established  by Paul Hickson in 1982. Hickson compact galaxy clusters are tightly spaced relative to other space objects. A typical Hickson cluster has 4 galaxies, but some have up to 8.

The 2 galaxies at bottom right are also about the same distance away, but are not formally part of Hickson 35.

I don’t see any significant disturbance in any of these galaxies, so I assume that they are too far apart from each other to be interacting.

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