See an extraordinary spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus

The structure in the constellation Pegasus is located 164 million light years from Earth. 

It was discovered in 1784 by the famous

German-born British astronomer William Herschel.

Spiral galaxy NGC 7678 is comparable toMilky Way. It is approximately 115,000 light years across. The presented image clearly shows the characteristic structure of objects of this type.

It should be noted that NGC 7678 is included in the so-called Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - a catalog of peculiar galaxies created by American astronomer Halton Arp.

In this list, the galaxy appears under the designation Arp 28, and its feature is the presence of "one heavy arm".

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