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Nov 05, 2008 15:06

Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten - a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies 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 on edge to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, resembling a zero, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation. The galaxy pair was photographed on October 27-28, 2008. Arp 147 lies in the constellation Cetus, and it is more than 400 million light-years away from Earth.



HubbleSite news release 2008-37, October 30, 2008

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