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Starry Sea Otters

17 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and W. Keel (Uni­ver­sity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

The pair of inter­act­ing galax­ies NGC 6621/2 play like a pair of starry sea otters in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. NGC 6621, to the left, is the larger of the two; it’s spi­ral shape highly dis­turbed by NGC 6622. The encounter has pulled out a long tail of NGC 6622 wrap­ping around the body of the main galaxy.

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