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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 February 7   
      
                           NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy   
         Image Credit & Copyright: CFHT, Coelum, MegaCam, J.-C. Cuillandre   
                          (CFHT) & G. A. Anselmi (Coelum)   
      
      Explanation: It's raining stars. What appears to be a giant cosmic   
      umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped from a   
      small satellite galaxy. The main galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 4651, is   
      about the size of our Milky Way, while its stellar parasol appears to   
      extend some 100 thousand light-years above this galaxy's bright disk. A   
      small galaxy was likely torn apart by repeated encounters as it swept   
      back and forth on eccentric orbits through NGC 4651. The remaining   
      stars will surely fall back and become part of a combined larger galaxy   
      over the next few million years. The featured image was captured by the   
      Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Hawaii, USA. The Umbrella   
      Galaxy lies about 50 million light-years distant toward the   
      well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices.   
      
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