Hubble Spots a Merging Galactic Gem

Hubble Spots a Merging Galactic Gem


Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel

Last Updated: July 8, 2022
Editor: Andrea Gianopoulos
 
Article from: https://www.nasa.gov/

 

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion.

This observation is a gem from the Galaxy Zoo project, a citizen science project involving hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the world who classified galaxies to help scientists solve a problem of astronomical proportions: how to sort through the vast amounts of data generated by telescopes. A public vote selected the most astronomically intriguing objects for follow-up observations with Hubble. CGCG 396-2 is one such object, imaged here by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

 


 

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