Posts Tagged ‘Seyfert’s Sextet’

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 Gull

12 March 2010 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 make bent wings 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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