Starship Asterisk*

Yeah, pretty darn difficult to discern either the small satellite galaxy below or the extensive tidal tail above. But luckily, the link-to video shows both MUCH more clearly (though it's all about the Quasars and not the Hamburger Galaxy per say):


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AKo9sS45E[/youtube]

[attachment=1]NGC3628-crop1024.jpg[/attachment]
For me the satellite galaxy wasn't seen; but you could se the stream
of stars in the video! :shock:
[attachment=0]leotriplet_vst_900.jpg[/attachment]
Nice view of the triplet! 8-)

[quote=AVAO post_id=322408 time=1651215397 user_id=144694]
Very nice shot by Wilhelm Michael Kasakow and Olaf Guillaume.

I also really like the APOD from 2011 March 16, because you can still see the star-forming regions there in pink and red.

[img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1103/NGC3628crawford900c.jpg[/img]
[url]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1103/NGC3628crawford.jpg[/url]
[size=50]Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.) [/size]

But what I don't understand is the statement
[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=322405 time=1651205322 user_id=128559]
It also reveals a small galaxy nearby (below), likely a satellite of NGC 3628, ...[/url].
[/quote]

[b][color=#FF0000]Where can this galaxy be seen?[/color][/b]
[url]https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/potw1026a/?lang[/url]
[/quote]

Here?


[attachment=0]NGC 3628 with satellite galaxy Kasakow.png[/attachment]

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Ann

Very nice shot by Wilhelm Michael Kasakow and Olaf Guillaume.

I also really like the APOD from 2011 March 16, because you can still see the star-forming regions there in pink and red.

[img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1103/NGC3628crawford900c.jpg[/img]
[url]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1103/NGC3628crawford.jpg[/url]
[size=50]Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.) [/size]

But what I don't understand is the statement
[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=322405 time=1651205322 user_id=128559]
It also reveals a small galaxy nearby (below), likely a satellite of NGC 3628, ...[/url].
[/quote]

Where can this galaxy be seen?
[url]https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/potw1026a/?lang[/url]

[attachment=0]Hamburger galaxy NGC 3628 APOD 29 April 2022 Wilhelm Michael Kasakow.png[/attachment]
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Hamburger in the sky! 🍔 Or maybe it's really a hot dog? 🌭

Ann

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220429.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_220429.jpg[/img] [size=150]Portrait of NGC 3628[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Sharp telescopic views of [url=http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/n3628.html]NGC 3628[/url] show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, [url=http://www.stein-exclusiv.de/NGC3628-crop.jpg]this portrait[/url] of the magnificent, edge-on spiral galaxy puts some astronomers [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020807.html]in mind[/url] of its popular moniker, the Hamburger Galaxy. It also reveals a small galaxy nearby (below), likely a satellite of NGC 3628, and a very faint but extensive [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121108.html]tidal tail[/url]. The drawn out tail stretches for about 300,000 light-years, even beyond the upper left edge of the frame. NGC 3628 shares its neighborhood in the local universe with two other large spirals [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070601.html]M65[/url] and [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101113.html]M66[/url] in a grouping otherwise known as [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110803.html]the Leo Triplet[/url]. Gravitational interactions with its [url=https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/11/1181-Image.html?news=true]cosmic neighbors[/url] are likely responsible for creating the tidal tail, as well as the extended flare and warp of this spiral's disk. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AKo9sS45E]The tantalizing island universe[/url] itself is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo.


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