Freewheeling Galaxies Collide in a Blaze of Star Birth
A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image.
These images, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), show traces of spiral structure accompanied by dramatic dust lanes and bright blue regions that mark areas of active star formation.
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About the Image
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| Id: | opo0314a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 1 May 2003, 06:00 |
| Size: | 1489 x 2049 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Caldwell 24, NGC 1275, Perseus A |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Seyfert |
| Distance: | 250 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
450 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
702 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
