Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7640
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NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus, Jim Thommes
NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus, Jim Thommes

NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus

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NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus, Jim Thommes
NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus, Jim Thommes

NGC 7640 with Faint Foreground Cirrus

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The dominant feature in this image is the barred spiral galaxy - SB(s)c - NGC 7640. It is about 26 million light years distant and it lies in a relatively dense Milky Way star field. Also of interest is the faint cirrus nebulosity in the foreground (along with the stars). There are numerous background galaxies - many can be seen in the full size image. Many of these galaxies have limited representations in well known catalogs., but a few have measured redshifts with extrapolated  distances  in the 2 billion light year range (by light travel time, Lookback).  The furthest objects are a few Quasars - the three visible in this image are from 4.28 to 9.17 billion years (Lookback).  These objects, information, background galaxies, and some of the brighter stars are identified in the annotated image.

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