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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 March 15   
      
                               Portrait of NGC 1055   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Doctor   
      
      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 the telltale pinkish star forming regions 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.   
      
                 Tomorrow's picture: an extremely large telescope   
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