APOD: 2022 April 29 - Portrait of NGC 3628

Mmmmm...burgers on the grill on a Spring night. Sounds like a plan. This is a portrait of NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy, and it lies 35 million light years away in the constellation Leo (The Lion). NGC 3628 is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, but we see it edge-on from Earth. Together with Messier 65 and 66, it forms the Leo Triplet. NGC 3628 was first discovered by William Herschel in 1784.