Bright pink nebulae almost completely encircle a spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 922. The ring structure and the galaxy’s distorted spiral shape result from a smaller galaxy scoring a cosmic bullseye, hitting the centre of NGC 922 some 330 million years ago.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1218/
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ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
6 December 2012
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6 December 2012: Episode 60 of the Hubblecast explores NGC 922, a galaxy that has been hit square-on by another. Ripples of star-formation are still propagating out across thousands of light-years of space ...
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27 November 2012: The Hubblecast, ESA’s popular vodcast which explores the Universe through the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, is now available with subtitles. Future episodes will be published with embedded subtitles ...
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