Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5713  ·  NGC 5719
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NGC 5713 & NGC 5719, Gary Imm
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NGC 5713 & NGC 5719

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NGC 5713 & NGC 5719

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This object is a pair of spiral galaxies located in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of 0 degrees.

NGC 5713 is the almost face-on galaxy to the right at a distance of 95 million light years. This galaxy is 2.5 arc-minutes wide in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 70,000 light years. The disk is interesting and looks disturbed to me. It has no arm structure, a bright inner disk, an asymmetric core and large dust lane, purple HI regions, and the bottom half of the disk has a blue tint.

NGC 5719 is the almost edge-on galaxy to the left at a distance of 90 million light years. This galaxy is 3.3 arc-minutes wide in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 90,000 light years. This galaxy also looks somewhat disturbed. Our perspective gives us a fascinating view of the wide dark dust lane, which cuts across the disk at an odd angle.

If these galaxies truly are 5 million light years apart, they are not close enough to be disturbing each other. But these distance estimates have much uncertainty, plus these galaxies may have been closer together in the past. So I think it is likely that the disturbed galaxy structures we see here are the result of some gravitational interaction with each other.

The background contains many faint distant objects, including at least 10 quasars.

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