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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2025 November 27   
      
                               Portrait of NGC 1055   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: John Hayes   
      
      Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member   
      of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the   
      aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island   
      universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own   
      Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic   
      portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way.   
      But telltale pinkish star forming regions and young blue star clusters   
      are scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's   
      thin disk. With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies,   
      the deep image also reveals a boxy halo that extends far above and   
      below the central bulge and disk of NGC 1055. The halo itself is laced   
      with faint, narrow structures, and could represent the mixed and spread   
      out debris from a satellite galaxy disrupted by the larger spiral some   
      10 billion years ago.   
      
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