Posts Tagged ‘IRAS 21101+5810’

Starry Ducky

24 August 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

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

Resem­bling a starry ducky, a pair of far­away galax­ies known as IRAS 21101+5810, merge together in a sky crowded with nearby stars from our own Milky Way.

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