NGC 1055 & M77
The large spiral galaxy NGC 1055 (bottom left) joins with spiral M77 to form this cosmic landscape towards the constellation Cetus.The cramped and dusty appearance of NGC 1055 when viewed from the edge contrasts with that of M77 when viewed from the front, allowing its bright core and spiral arms to be appreciated. Both more than 100,000 light-years across, these galaxies form the dominant pair of a small pack of galaxies some 60 million years apart.  At this estimated distance, M77 is one of the most distant entries in Charles Messier's catalog and is separated from its counterpart

NGC 1055 by at least 500,000 light-years.The field covers about the same area as the full MoonNGC 1055NGC 1055 is a barred spiral galaxy that is relatively close together and seen from the edge and located in the constellation Cetus.  NGC 1055 is a Sab morphological galaxy, located about 50 light-years away.
NGC 1055 has a luminosity class of II and a broad HI line. In addition, it is a LINER galaxy, i.e. a galaxy whose nucleus has an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weakly ionized atoms and it is also an active Seyfert 2 (Sy 2)1 galaxy.Its prominent bulb is crossed by a broad, dark band of dust. Its central black hole is supermassive, on the order of 10 million solar masses.


M77 is a galaxy with an active nucleus that is hidden at visible wavelengths by an interstellar dust cloud. It is a type 2 Seyfert galaxy, located about 40 light-years away. It is a galaxy of morphological type (R)SA(rs)b. The notation (R) at the beginning means that the galaxy is surrounded by an outer ring. The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is surrounded by two disks of gas that rotate in opposite directions to each other, a very surprising phenomenon on the scale of a few light-years.
The galaxy M77 is likely the source of some of the neutrinos detected by the IceCube10 experiment. Published in 2010, observations from the Hubble Space Telescope detected a star-forming disk around the core of NGC 1068. The size of its semi-major axis is estimated to be 1190 pc (~3880 light-years).