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Hubble telescope captures image of unique lopsided spiral galaxy, 120 mn light-years away – Firstpost
Another image by Hubble shows galaxy cluster ACO S 295 and crowded background galaxies and stars.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a spiral galaxy called NGC 2276, located in the Cepheus constellation. It is estimated to be 120 million light-years away. The galaxy is ‘lopsided’ or deformed because of the gravitational pull of its neighbour, NGC 2300. According to a Hubble blog. since galaxies are not solid object but made up of tens of billions of stars; when two galaxies come together, they feel each other’s gravity.
The spiral galaxy…
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