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Object Information

ARP222

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a peculiar spiral galaxy which has merged with another galaxy in the past. It sits over 85 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy - Binary.
Distance: 812,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 512,000,000,000,000,000 km.