Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3548  ·  IC 3578  ·  NGC 4564  ·  NGC 4567  ·  NGC 4568  ·  Siamese Twins
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NGC4567 & 4568 The Butterfly Galaxies, Eric Kallgren
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NGC4567 & 4568 The Butterfly Galaxies

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NGC4567 & 4568 The Butterfly Galaxies

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NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Butterfly Galaxies or Siamese Twins ) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. They were both discovered by William Herschel in 1784. They are part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. These 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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NGC4567 & 4568 The Butterfly Galaxies, Eric Kallgren

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