Giant Galaxies in Pavo

Over 500,000 gentle years for the duration of, NGC 6872 (top appropriate) is a if truth be told broad barred spiral galaxy, at the least 5 times the dimensions of our maintain very dapper Milky Blueprint. The look of this broad galaxy’s distorted and stretched out spiral arms suggests the gorgeous wings of an infinite bird. Obviously its popular moniker is the Condor galaxy. It lies about 200 million gentle-years distant in opposition to the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock. Lined with star-forming areas, the distorted spiral arms are due to NGC 6872’s gravitational interaction with the shut by smaller galaxy IC 4970, seen appropriate above the broad galaxy’s core. The Pavo galaxy community’s dominant broad elliptical galaxy, NGC 6876 is below and left of the hovering Condor galaxy.