Hubble scores a perfect ten
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.
The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed, apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, the "zero" of the pair, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.
Credit:
NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)
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| Id: | heic0820a |
| Release date: | Oct 30, 2008, 14:00 CET |
| Related release: | heic0820 |
| Size: | 1457 x 1201 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Arp 147 |
| Type: | • Galaxies Images/Videos |
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