Posts Tagged ‘galaxy collision’

Diffuse Butterfly

26 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A faint and dif­fuse but­ter­fly shape sur­rounds this image of an ellip­ti­cal galaxy from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Holy Galacticus

04 November 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESO/Oleg Maliy

Some­thing about this image of the spi­ral galaxy Messier 96 from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory has me awestruck.

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Disturbed “V”

09 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

Galax­ies col­lide to form this highly dis­turbed “V” in this NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image of inter­act­ing galaxy IC 883.

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Galactically Linked “L”

26 July 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA, J. Eng­lish (U. Man­i­toba), S. Huns­berger, S. Zonak, J. Charl­ton, S. Gal­lagher (PSU), and L. Frattare (STScI)

Dis­torted galax­ies form the let­ter “L” in this image of Seyfert’s Sex­tet. Six objects appear in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope but only four galax­ies are inter­act­ing. The face-on spi­ral in the cen­ter of the image is a back­ground galaxy five times far­ther away than the others.

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Star Scorpion

04 March 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A starry scor­pion reaches out for a galac­tic morsel in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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