NGC 7673 & 7677 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: NGC 7673 · NGC 7677

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NGC 7673 & 7677

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NGC 7673 & 7677

This image captures 2 rarely photographed galaxies located 160 million light years away in the constellation of Pegasus at a declination of +24 degrees. Each galaxy spans about 2 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 100,000 light years. Each of these galaxies is disturbed to different degrees. Although there are many other distant galaxies visible in the image, it is logical that the 2 main galaxies are responsible for each other's disturbance.

The galaxy at lower left, NGC 7673, is a highly disturbed spiral galaxy. This galaxy is experiencing intense star formation, as seen in its blue color, numerous bright star clusters, and extended star stream. 2 small distant galaxies are seen to be overlapped by NGC 7673 - the edge-on spiral galaxy at 7 o'clock, and a barely visible face-on spiral galaxy at 1 o'clock. These 2 galaxies are much easier seen on the Hubble image of this object.

The galaxy at upper right, NGC 7677, is a beautiful spiral galaxy at the same distance away as NGC 7673, and also disturbed. Its two spiral arms are seen to be widely separated from the core in the second half circle of their revolution.

Many of the small "stars" in the background are actually galaxies. In fact, I believe that there are more galaxies visible in the background than stars.

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RA (center)	23h27m52s.916
RA (top/left)	23h27m09s.124
RA (top/right)	23h28m36s.669
RA (bottom/right)	23h28m36s.780
RA (bottom/left)	23h27m09s.870

Dec (center)	+23°33′48″.96
Dec (top/left)	+23°27′09″.83
Dec (top/right)	+23°27′09″.19
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°40′27″.29
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°40′27″.94

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