Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  NGC 770  ·  NGC 772
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NGC 772 - Fiddlehead Galaxy, Eddie Bagwell
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NGC 772 - Fiddlehead Galaxy

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NGC 772 - Fiddlehead Galaxy

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NGC 772
Arp 78
PGC 7525
Fiddlehead Galaxy

This Unbarred Spiral Galaxy is approximately 130 million light-years away located in the Aries Constellation. At around 200,000 light years in diameter, NGC 772 is slightly larger than the Milky Way Galaxy and is surrounded by several satellite galaxies, including the dwarf NGC 770, whose tidal forces on the larger galaxy have likely caused the emergence of a single elongated outer spiral arm that is much more developed and stronger than the other arms.

Halton Arp included NGC 772 in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 78, where it is described as a "Spiral galaxy with a small high-surface brightness companion."

Thanks, Eddie

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