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Hubble Catches a Ring of Stellar Wildfire – Space Ref
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically shaped galaxy ablaze with activity.
The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from Earth and is nestled in the southern constellation of Eridanus (the River).
NGC 1614 is the result of an active galactic merger, which creates its peculiar appearance, including a tidal tail. The cosmic collision also drives a turbulent flow of interstellar gas from the smaller of the two galaxies involved into the nucleu…
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