Appearing razor-thin against the cosmic backdrop, NGC 5907 slices through the constellation Draco in this deep LRGB image. Also known as the Splinter Galaxy, this elegant spiral lies approximately 50 million light-years away and is seen almost perfectly edge-on. Its warped disk and faint tidal features suggest a turbulent history, an ongoing gravitational dance with a long-disrupted satellite galaxy.

Arcing delicately around NGC 5907 is a spectacular stellar stream, the ghostly remnant of that merger. Composed of stars flung out by tidal forces, this faint loop of light is rarely visible in amateur images. Capturing such a structure requires exceptional sky conditions and long integration times, making this view both scientifically valuable and visually arresting.

Image Description and Details :

A spiral galaxy located in the dragon It has several stellar flows, here on the image I have only captured the left flow the rest of its large loop is very little visible or then some influences by severely pushing the transformation histo. Its stellar fluxes are remnants of dwarf or similar sized galaxies that have been disturbed and extended along its orbit. The galaxy is located 42.4 million light years away.

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