NGC 3628: aka The Hamburger Galaxy

This image is a view of an edge-on spiral galaxy named NGC 3628, AKA “The Hamburger Galaxy”. A fluffy galactic hamburger shaped galaxy divided by a dark dust lane.

The galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the springtime constellation of Leo.

NGC 3628 shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large spirals M65 and M66 in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet. Gravitational interactions with its cosmic neighbors are likely responsible for the extended flare and warp of this spiral's disk.

Copyright: Alex Iezkhoff