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+  "title": "Unraveling NGC 3169",
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+  "hdImageUrl": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2405/N3169N3166Final.jpg",
+  "imageUrl": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2405/N3169N3166Final1024.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download  the highest resolution version available.",
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+    "Image Credit & [Copyright](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): [Christophe Vergnes](https://www.astrobin.com/users/Chris.V/), [Aziz Kaeouach](https://www.astrobin.com/users/aziz5200/)"
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+Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, [south of](http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1114a/) bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up spiral arms are pulled out into sweeping tidal tails as NGC 3169 (left) and neighboring NGC 3166 [interact gravitationally](https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc3166/). Eventually the galaxies will merge into one, a common fate even for bright galaxies in [the local universe](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120604.html). Drawn out stellar arcs and plumes are clear indications of the ongoing gravitational interactions across the deep and colorful [galaxy group](http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galgrps/leoii.html) photo. [The telescopic frame](https://www.astrobin.com/ai8tao/) spans about 20 arc minutes or about 400,000 light-years at the group's estimated distance, and includes smaller, bluish NGC 3165 to the right. NGC 3169 is also known to shine across the spectrum from radio to X-rays, [harboring](http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4382) an active galactic nucleus that is the site of a supermassive black hole.