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                                   2023 June 23   
      
                              Giant Galaxies in Pavo   
            Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby, Observatorio El Sauce   
      
      Explanation: Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (top right) is a   
      truly enormous barred spiral galaxy, at least 5 times the size of our   
      own very large Milky Way. The appearance of this giant galaxy's   
      distorted and stretched out spiral arms suggests the magnificent wings   
      of a giant bird. Of course its popular moniker is the Condor galaxy. It   
      lies about 200 million light-years distant toward the southern   
      constellation Pavo, the Peacock. Lined with star-forming regions, the   
      distorted spiral arms are due to NGC 6872's gravitational interaction   
      with the nearby smaller galaxy IC 4970, seen just above the giant   
      galaxy's core. The Pavo galaxy group's dominant giant elliptical   
      galaxy, NGC 6876 is below and left of the soaring Condor galaxy.   
      
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