Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 58  ·  NGC 4564  ·  NGC 4567  ·  NGC 4568  ·  NGC 4579  ·  Siamese Twins
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M58 & Siamese Twins, Seymore Stars
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M58 & Siamese Twins

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M58 & Siamese Twins

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NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Siamese Twins) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about

60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.

The Siamese Twins galaxies are in the process of colliding and merging with each other, as studies of their distributions of neutral

and molecular hydrogen show, with the highest star-formation activity in the part where they overlap.

However, the system is still in an early phase of interaction.

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M58 & Siamese Twins, Seymore Stars

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