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                                  2025 August 19   
      
                              Giant Galaxies in Pavo   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block   
      
      Explanation: Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (bottom left) is   
      a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy. At least 5 times the size of our   
      own large Milky Way, NGC 6872 is the largest known spiral galaxy. About   
      200 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Pavo,   
      the Peacock, the appearance of this giant galaxy's stretched out spiral   
      arms suggest the wings of a giant bird. So its popular moniker is the   
      Condor galaxy. Lined with massive young, bluish star clusters and   
      star-forming regions, the extended and distorted spiral arms are due to   
      NGC 6872's past gravitational interactions with the nearby smaller   
      galaxy IC 4970, visible here below the giant spiral galaxy's core.   
      Other members of the southern Pavo galaxy group are scattered through   
      this magnificent galaxy group portrait, with the dominant giant   
      elliptical galaxy, NGC 6876, above and right of the soaring Condor   
      galaxy.   
      
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