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Interacting Systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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I will confine this brief review to just two examples of galaxies that seem to have interacted recently with impressive consequences: (1) the well-known Messier 51 system NGC 5194/5 = deservedly VV 1, and (2) the so-called Cartwheel, a ring within a ring, separated by vaguely spokelike features and accompanied by two smaller galaxies.
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- I. Galaxies in Small Groups
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 79: The Large Scale Structure of the Universe , 1978 , pp. 109 - 116
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- Copyright © Reidel 1978
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