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The Leo Triplet: The Hamburger Galaxy (NGC 3628, right), M65 (bottom), and M66 (left) // Alexey Korobeynikov
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The Leo Triplet: The Hamburger Galaxy (NGC 3628, right), M65 (bottom), and M66 (left) // Alexey Korobeynikov
NGC 3628 - The Hamburger Galaxy
NGC 3628: The Hamburger Galaxy
No, hamburgers are not this big. What is pictured is a sharp telescopic view of a magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628, a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep galactic portrait puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, The Hamburger Galaxy. The tantalizing island universe is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo. NGC 3628 shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large spirals M65 and M66 in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet. Gravitational interactions with its cosmic neighbors are likely responsible for the extended flare and warp of this spiral's disk.
Credit: Eric Coles and Mel Helm
The Hamburger Galaxy NGC 3628 Narrowfield C Positive - April 29, 2017 by Joseph Brimacombe Via Flickr: Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using an SBIG STL-6303 camera and 41-cm RCOS telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount. LINK Negative image: www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/34649087146/ Info about this galaxy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3628 NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy[3] or Sarah's Galaxy, is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. It has an approximately 300,000 light-years long tidal tail. Along with M65 and M66, NGC 3628 forms the Leo Triplet, a small group of galaxies. Its most conspicuous feature is the broad and obscuring band of dust located along the outer edge of its spiral arms, effectively transecting the galaxy to the view from Earth.
The Hamburger Galaxy, NGC 3628 // Ben Saunders
The Leo Triplet 😐: M65 (top left), M66 (top right), and Sarah's Galaxy (NGC 3628, bottom) // Kenward Vaughan
The Leo Triplet: the Hamburger Galaxy (NGC 3628, top), M65 (bottom right), and M66 (bottom left) // Jay Qi