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                                   2022 June 10   
      
                              Arp 286: Trio in Virgo   
             Image Credit & Copyright: Nicolas Rolland, Telescope.Live   
      
      Explanation: This colorful telescopic field of view features a trio of   
      interacting galaxies almost 90 million light-years away, toward the   
      constellation Virgo. On the right two spiky, foreground Milky Way stars   
      echo the extragalactic hues, a reminder that stars in our own galaxy   
      are like those in distant island universes. With sweeping spiral arms   
      and obscuring dust lanes, the dominant member of the trio, NGC 5566, is   
      enormous, about 150,000 light-years across. Just above it lies smaller,   
      bluish NGC 5569. Near center a third galaxy, NGC 5560, is apparently   
      stretched and distorted by its interaction with massive NGC 5566. The   
      trio is also included in Halton Arp's 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies   
      as Arp 286. Of course, such cosmic interactions are now appreciated as   
      part of the evolution of galaxies.   
      
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