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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). Interestingly, both galaxies have monumentally energetic cores known as active galactic nuclei (AGN), although that is difficult to tell from this image, which is fortunate. If the image revealed the full emission of both AGNs, their brilliance would obscure the beautifully detailed tidal interactions we see in this image. Tidal forces occur when an object’s gravity causes another object to distort or stretch. The direction of tidal forces is away from the lower-mass object and toward the higher mass object. When two galaxies tidally interact, gas, dust, and even entire star systems can move toward one galaxy and away from the other. The image reveals this process in action as delicate streams of matter visibly link the two galaxies. Astronomers now accept that an important aspect of how galaxies evolve is the way they interact with one another. Galaxies can merge, collide, or brush past one another – each interaction significantly affecting their shapes and structures. As common as such interactions may be, it is rare to capture an image of two galaxies interacting in such a visibly dynamic way. Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy (DOE), Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NoirLab/National Science Foundation/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS); Acknowledgment: J. Schmidt For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-views-a-co... |
Date | Taken on 18 January 2022, 22:42 |
Source | Hubble Views a Cosmic Interaction |
Author | NASA Hubble Space Telescope |
Flickr tags InfoField | arp 282 , hubble space telescope , nasa , interacting galaxies , galaxy , seyfert galaxy , space , science , astronomy , universe , cosmos |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA Hubble at https://flickr.com/photos/144614754@N02/51874442227. It was reviewed on 16 February 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSSAcknowledgement: J. Schmidt |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 7 February 2022 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 22.5 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 22:42, 18 January 2022 |
Date and time of digitizing | 05:05, 12 December 2021 |
Date metadata was last modified | 23:42, 18 January 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:cc8be301-a0d1-4a37-a54a-315bd2979d4f |
Keywords | Arp 282 |
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ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States |
IIM version | 4 |