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Hubble telescope spies lopsided spiral galaxy deformed by gravity – Space.com
This galaxy is so strange it made it to the list of the Universe’s greatest weirdos.
The NGC 2276 galaxy, recently imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, had previously made it to the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Sell)
The Hubble Space Telescope
has captured a stunning new image of a distant spiral galaxy deformed by gravitational tug of its neighbor.
The spiral galaxy
, called NGC 2276, is located in the constellation Cepheus some 120 million light-years away from Earth’s sun. In a wide-field image from Hubble, it can be seen together with its…
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