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A color image of three widely separated galaxies. The galaxy at the upper left is an edge-on spiral, seen as a thin rectangular shape with a light brown dust lane going through the middle. A translucent, curved plume, about two times the length of the galaxy trails off to the left. The galaxy at lower left is a face-on barred spiral galaxy, with a bright central bar and two spiral arms, which form an S-shape. The galaxy at lower right is a nearly face-on spiral, with a bright nucleus and curving dust lanes. The image is very dense with foreground stars. A scale bar marking 50 kpc takes up about 1/6 of the width of the image.