Seyfert's Sextet, Annotated Image
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that gravitational forces are beginning to rip stars from them and distort their shapes. Those same gravitational forces eventually could bring the galaxies together to form one large galaxy.
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About the Object
Name: | NGC 6027, Seyfert's Sextet |
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Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting Local Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Distance: | 200 million light years |
Category: | Galaxies |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Ultraviolet U | 336 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical B | 439 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical V | 555 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |