NGC 3718 and Company

Posted by Fred Herrmann
on Friday, April 11, 2014

NGC3718 (R) is a disrupted warped spiral. To the left is NGC3729. Both galaxies lie in the constellation Ursa Major at a distance of 52 million light-years. At the bottom of NGC3718 is the Hickson galaxy group 56. This group consists of interacting galaxies at a distance of 400 million light-years.

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