Hubble's telescope looks at bizarre pairs of galaxies.

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March 8, 2022 08:01 a.m.

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Send astronomers another piece of deep space weirdness homework.

For the Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble Space Telescope)

, an instrument of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

or NASA

and the European Space Agency, or ESA, recently captured the beauty of Arp 298, a binary galaxy.

or a pair of galaxies interacting in the constellation of flying horses.

The galaxy system is located approximately 206 million light-years from Earth and consists of two galaxies, both spiral or spiral galaxies, named NGC 7469 and IC 5283. NGC 7469 is the largest and home to supermassive black holes.

Including a bright ring full of star clusters, IC 5283 is a mini galaxy.

The image was taken with two Hubble Space Telescope devices.

That is Wide Field Camera 3-WFC 3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys-ACS.

The dual galaxy Arp 298 is considered an unusual galaxy.

Arp 298 is certainly one of the galaxies that the James Webb Space Telescope will observe in the future.

Credit : ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Evans, R. Chandar

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