Grus Trio of Galaxies

NGC7582, 7590,7599

The Gems of Grus!

The Grus Trio of galaxies is in the Constellation of Grus, some 60 million lights years distant of Earth. The group is often referred to as The Grus Quartet, but NGC7552 is out of this field of view.

This galaxy triplet lies in the southern constellation of Grus and the three spiral galaxies (NGC 7582, 7590, 7599) exhibit telltale signs of gravitational interactions, such as the distortions of the upper two galaxies distending them toward the lower, NGC 7582 galaxy. Numerous other galaxies occur in this field-of-view. Often they are easily distinguished from the stars by their extended fuzzy halos or oblong shapes. The background galaxies lie at a much greater distance than the triad, which is about 60M light-years away.

Image Processing: Mark Hanson

Data: Mazlin, Forman, Parker, Hanson

24” PlaneWave CDK from SWOS in Chile