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Astrobin Debut Object is a trio of galaxies located 215 million light years away in the constellation of Delphinus at a declination of +13 degrees. The view is obstructed a bit by numerous foreground Milky Way stars.
All 3 of these galaxies have interesting structures, containing 3 different types of ring structures. 2 of them appear disturbed to me, so there is likely some gravitational interaction occurring here. We are viewing each of these galaxies at about half-way between edge-on and face-on.
The barred spiral NGC 6956 is to the upper right. This galaxy spans 1.6 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 100,000 light years. It has a fascinating arm structure – 2 unsymmetric arms which appear doubled in places, with numerous star clusters sprinkled about. The arms form a “football” ring around the core.
The beautiful barred spiral ring galaxy UGC 11623 (PGC 65293) is to the upper left, smaller at 60,000 light years in diameter. The galaxy UGC 11620 (PGC 65281) is towards the bottom of the image. The disk has a semi-circular ring around the core.
The distant edge-on spiral galaxy PGC 1409438 is photobombing the trio, located at the bottom right.
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