The Triple Galaxy

Posted by Queuebot in Science & Tech on April 9, 2009 at 4:50 pm


The Hubble Space Telescope took a closer look at this triple galaxy group on April 1 and 2 after 140,000 people around the world voted on six potential targets.

The areas have previously only been photographed by ground-based telescopes:

The Arp 274 galaxy group won the competition with more than 67,000 votes. Hubble’s image suggests the galaxies may not be close enough together to interact as they appear to be in the image taken by the Palomar Observatory near San Diego.

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3 comments to "The Triple Galaxy"

  1. sarge
    April 9th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    cool post. many thanks for sharing.

  2. Foreigner1
    April 10th, 2009 at 2:50 am

    This always fascinates me when I see such pictures: "Hubble’s image suggests the galaxies may not be close enough together to interact as they appear to be" ...So this picture is a question of visual alignment that groups these galaxies while in fact they could even be far far away from eachother...? That is awesome.

  3. LisaL
    April 10th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    I wish I could live long enough to see humans taking deep space travel.


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