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                                2022 June 10
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                           Arp 286: Trio in Virgo
     Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Nicolas Rolland, [5]Telescope.Live

   Explanation: [6]This colorful telescopic field of view features a trio
   of interacting galaxies almost 90 million light-years away, toward the
   [7]constellation Virgo. On the right two [8]spiky, foreground Milky Way
   stars echo the extragalactic hues, a reminder that stars in our own
   galaxy are like those in distant [9]island universes. With sweeping
   spiral arms and obscuring dust lanes, the dominant member of the trio,
   NGC 5566, is enormous, about 150,000 light-years across. Just above it
   lies smaller, bluish NGC 5569. Near center a third galaxy, NGC 5560, is
   apparently stretched and distorted by its interaction with massive NGC
   5566. The trio is also included in Halton Arp's 1966 [10]Atlas of
   Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 286. Of course, such [11]cosmic interactions
   are now [12]appreciated as part of the [13]evolution of galaxies.

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   7. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/vir/index.html
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
   9. https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/ideas/island.htm
  10. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/frames.html
  11. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html
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  13. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908269v1
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