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Showing posts with label Family Portrait of Galaxies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Portrait of Galaxies. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

A Family Portrait of Galaxies


Two very different galaxies attribute in this family portrait taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, together forming a exclusive galaxy pair called Arp 116. The image shows the dramatic differences in size, structure and color spiral and elliptical galaxies between.

Arp 116 is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy Messier known as 60, and a much smaller spiral galaxy, NGC 4647.