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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 [...]

Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb

By |2024-07-30T09:09:25-04:00July 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and minding its own business. Then [...]

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