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Rose Galaxy

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is an interacting pair of galaxies, which combined make a rose shape. They are located 300 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy - Binary.
Distance: 3,390,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 1,560,000,000,000,000,000 km.