NGC 2782 is a Barred
Spiral Galaxy and marked as Peculiar in nature. This is another
example of two galaxies colliding but in this case, the second
galaxy is suspected to be far inferior to the first and rapidly
scattered its matterial while being absorbed into the larger
galaxy. At over 100 million light years away, the collision
happend about 200 million years ago, so we are seeing the
results at only 100 million years old. Star formation has been
detected younger than 100 million years old and therefore is
considered recent and post-merger. Look carefully and you can
see faint clouds of stars extending half way to the edges of
this image representing hundreds of millions of stars, so far
way that they apear only as faint clouds. For a wonderfully
detailed paper on this galaxy visit
here. Statistics for NGC 2782 are RA: 09h 14m 08.6s, Dec:
+40° 06' 49", Mag: 12.3 (B), Size: 3.8'x2.5', and Class:
SAB(rs)a pec.
