Posts Tagged ‘ESO 593-8’

Merging Y

11 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

Galaxy inter­ac­tions are always impres­sive. ESO 593–8 looks like the let­ter “Y,” swoop­ing eagle or a feather. Explore the NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image of these merg­ing galax­ies. Do you see any pat­terns? What sto­ries can you tell?

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Swooping Eagle

01 March 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

Galaxy inter­ac­tions are always impres­sive. ESO 593–8 looks like a swoop­ing eagle or a feather. Explore the NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image of these merg­ing galax­ies. Do you see any pat­terns? What sto­ries can you tell?

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