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A lower-res black and white image of three widely separated galaxies on the black background of space. The bright parts of the galaxy are overexposed, so you do not see very many interior details of the galaxies. The galaxy at the upper left is an edge-on spiral, seen as a wide, bright line with a dark dust lane going through the middle. The galaxy at lower left is a spiral galaxy, seen as a bright oval. The galaxy at lower right is a nearly face-on spiral, seen as a bright oval.

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A lower-res black and white image of three widely separated galaxies on the black background of space. The bright parts of the galaxy are overexposed, so you do not see very many interior details of the galaxies. The galaxy at the upper left is an edge-on spiral, seen as a wide, bright line with a dark dust lane going through the middle. The galaxy at lower left is a spiral galaxy, seen as a bright oval. The galaxy at lower right is a nearly face-on spiral, seen as a bright oval.
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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:37:00 UTC Kelly Lepo
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NGC 3627 is a member of the Leo Triplet. This small group of galaxies consists of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC3628 at upper left, and the nearly face-on spirals NGC 3627 (M66) at lower left and NGC 3623 (M65) at lower right.
The left image is from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies from 1966. The Leo triplet is number 317 in the catalog.
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Arp80.html
The right image is from the Burrell Schmidt Telescope at Kitt Peak, taken in 1995.
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m65a66/
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