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#NGC772

The Fiddlehead Galaxy NGC 772, 106 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc772

A small disc of light with a long arm against a starfield

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#NGC772 aka #Arp78 or #Fiddlehead
#spiralgalaxies #SpiralGalaxy

Not funny to try to imagine that white blob is NOT a white blob, it's many suns, when you zoom far in.
The only way to zoom way in, is to use your imagination.
Being a human, we have that skill, ⭕it's 200,000 lyr in diameter

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Thx 4 orig Uni Sci boost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_772

106 million lyr away, discovered by German-British astronomer #WilliamHerschel #Herschel in 1785

Just the center, an all white blob of light

NGC 772 (also known as Arp 78 or the Fiddlehead Galaxy) is a large unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 106 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 29 November 1785.

At around 200,000 light years in diameter, NGC 772 is somewhat larger than the Milky Way Galaxy and is surrounded by several satellite galaxies – including the dwarf elliptical, NGC 770 – whose tidal forces on the larger galaxy have likely caused the emergence of a single elongated outer spiral arm that is much more developed and stronger than the others arms. Halton Arp includes NGC 772 in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 78, where it is described as a "Spiral galaxy with a small high-surface brightness companion".

NGC 772 probably has a H II nucleus, but it may be a transitional object.

Spiral galaxy NGC 772, 106 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc772

A small spiral galaxy against a starfield

CFHT Astronomy Image Of The Month

Galaxies in Aries

Data obtained using the MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; Image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum); Copyright © 2025 CFHT

https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/AIOM/English/CFHT-Coelum-AIOM-Aug2025.html

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