It’s an enhancement of an earlier image, but this just has to be seen.
H/T Sci-News
NASA has released the sharpest image ever taken of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.
The Cartwheel Galaxy was first spotted on wide-field images from the U.K. Schmidt telescope and then studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope.
Also known as LEDA 2248, ESO 350-40 and IRAS 00352-3359, the galaxy is an estimated 150,000 light-years in diameter and has a mass of about 3 billion solar masses.
Along with the two galaxies on the left, the Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies approximately 500 million light-years away.
According to astronomers, the cartwheel shape of the galaxy is the result of a violent galactic collision.
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January 24, 2018 at 10:27AM
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