APOD: 2020 June 4 - Portrait of NGC 3628

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Atronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Portrait of NGC 3628 [Hamburger Galaxy.]"

Portrait of NGC 3628 - Image Credit & Copyright - Stefano Cancelli (1963-2020), Paul Mortfield

APOD Background "Explanation: Sharp telescopic views of NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep portrait of the magnificent, edge-on spiral galaxy puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, the Hamburger Galaxy. It also reveals a small galaxy nearby, likely a satellite of NGC 3628, and a faint but extensive tidal tail. The drawn out tail stretches for about 300,000 light-years, even beyond the right edge of the wide frame. 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 creating the tidal tail, as well as the extended flare and warp of this spiral's disk. The tantalizing island universe itself is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo."

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5hank you for the great astronomy picture sir, have a great third sir.

Good "Thursday" Morning Bill. Thanks Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for sharing the great APOD Titled "Portrait of NGC 3628" also known as the Hamburger Galaxy with us this fine morning. Bill have a great Thursday brother!