崩解之中的NGC 3169

2023年3月2日 Unraveling NGC 3169 Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up spiral arms are pulled out into sweeping tidal tails as NGC 31...