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04-JUN-2008

M101 and NGC 5474

This center crop of the M101 wide field image shows NGC 5475,
a peculiar dwarf companion galaxy. Gravitational interaction with M101
has strongly distorted the core of NGC 5474 causing it to be offset from the disc.


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