An intermediate spiral galaxy

The Bubble Galaxy NGC 3521, 37 million light years away.
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NGC 3521 The Bubble Galaxy - telescope processed image. It’s a "flocculent" spiral galaxy, meaning its arms look fuzzy and patchy like cotton balls rather than having long, well-defined paths.

NGC 3521 The Bubble Galaxy - unprocessed image. It is surrounded by a giant shell of stars and dust, likely debris from smaller galaxies that NGC 3521 swallowed in its distant past.

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A detailed image of spiral galaxy NGC 3521, located in the constellation Leo. The galaxy appears tilted and features uneven, dusty spiral arms with pink star-forming regions and blue star clusters. Surrounding the galaxy are faint, wispy, bubble-like shells—extended arcs of starlight likely formed from tidal debris left behind by ancient galactic mergers. The background is filled with distant stars and faint galaxies.

📸 NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
A spiral galaxy in Leo, surrounded by faint stellar shells from ancient mergers.
📅 June 19, 2025
📷 Vikas Chander
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Stunning close-up of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521, located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals its intricate, patchy spiral arms filled with dust and young, blue stars, contrasting with more regularly structured spiral galaxies. The galaxy spans 50,000 light-years and is visible through small telescopes.

Astronomy Picture from 30/11/2015

In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151130.html


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A stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521 in the constellation Leo. The galaxy's patchy spiral arms, pink star-forming regions, and blue star clusters are vividly displayed, along with fainter, bubble-like shells, likely tidal debris from past mergers. This detailed view showcases the galaxy's beauty and complex history.

Astronomy Picture from 05/05/2022

NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220505.html


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