NGC 4565 – The Needle Galaxy Description: NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on between 40 and 50 million light years away from us. It appears to us a little brighter than an identical face-on galaxy would appear because all the luminosity...
NGC 4631 – The Whale Galaxy Description: NGC 4631, the Whale Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on and located about 28 million light-years away. It contains regions of intense star formation. Emissions of ionized hydrogen as well as the presence of...
NGC 5394-5395 – The Heron galaxy Description: The Heron Galaxy is a strange and rather spectacular formation of two gravitationally merged galaxies. The two galaxies are identified NGC 5394 and NGC 5395 while the set is identified Arp 84 in Halton Arp’s...
NGC 6946 – The Fireworks Galaxy Description: NGC 6946 earned its nickname Fireworks Galaxy because it has hosted ten supernovae since 1917. NGC 6946 is one of the most prolific galaxies in the sky in terms of supernova rates, about 10 times the rate of the Milky...
NGC 7331 – The Deerlick Galaxy Description: NGC 7331 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 42.4 million l.y. from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. With a diameter of about 100,000 light years, it is the main component of a cluster of galaxies known as the...
