Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5905  ·  NGC 5908  ·  PGC 2502717  ·  PGC 2504296  ·  PGC 54557
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NGC 5905, Torben van Hees
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NGC 5905, Torben van Hees
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NGC 5905 is the  barred-spiral galaxy in the lower right. Its distance is cited by Wikipedia to be approx. 160 million light years and its size is 160000 light years. It's a Seyfert active galaxy and of low surface-brightness. Other sources place it at 120 million light years and up to 227000 light years diameter. It has a central star-forming ring of 1200 light years diameter - much too small to be resolved here. 

NGC 5908 is the spiral galaxy in the upper left, also at a distance of approx. 160 million light years. We see it almost perfectly edge-on.  I could find few studies of it, although it is the biggest galaxy in its group, to which NGC 5905 also belongs.

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