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UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble

By |2025-06-01T09:09:06-04:00June 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of UGC 1810 [...]

Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A

By |2025-05-29T09:09:06-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the attention, flaunting young, bright, blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along graceful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A. Its young star clusters and star forming regions are gathered into a [...]

Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way

By |2025-05-27T09:09:17-04:00May 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Behold one of the most photogenic regions of the night sky, captured impressively. Featured, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs diagonally along the bottom-left corner, while the colorful Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is visible just right of center and the large red circular Zeta Ophiuchi Nebula appears near [...]

Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb

By |2025-05-26T09:09:08-04:00May 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What’s happening in the center of spiral galaxy NGC 2566? First, the eight rays that appear to be coming out of the center in the featured infrared image are not real — they are diffraction spikes caused by the mechanical structure of the Webb space telescope itself. The center of [...]

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