#arp 273

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The Cosmic Rose, Arp 273 // Willem Jan Drijfhout

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Arp 273, a pair of interacting galaxies, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope

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ARP 273 Galaxy Group

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Una spettacolare coppia di galassie in collisione, a 300 milioni di anni luce da noi.  La coppia si chiama Arp 273, ed è piegata in questo modo perché la gravità delle due galassie stanno piegando i bracci di polvere e gas.

http://spacetelescope.org/images/heic1107a/

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UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble 

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of the UGC 1810 -- in particular its blue outer ring -- is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions. This ring's blue color is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years. The inner galaxy appears older, redder, and threaded with cool filamentary dust. A few bright stars appear well in the foreground, unrelated to UGC 1810, while several galaxies are visible well in the background. Arp 273 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation of Andromeda. Quite likely, UGC 1810 will devour its galactic sidekick over the next billion years and settle into a classic spiral form.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana

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I actually did a thing today. I changed Connie’s hair to be her new hair design cause I love it. I still have work to do on the line-art but I thought I should share this with Tumblr.I MADE A PUN. AHAHAHHAHAHAHA.... Astronomy puns.... It’s a rose made of two galaxies.... //awkward laughter as I back off into the darkness off SU obsession

Copyrights of characters to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network

Why is watch SU on yahoo linked to this???????????????

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Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273

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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; January 5, 2016:

Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 Wolfgang Ries/Stefan Heutz (Astrokooperation)

The spiky stars in the foreground of this sharp cosmic portrait are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. The two eye-catching galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance of over 300 million light-years. Their distorted appearance is due to gravitational tides as the pair engage in close encounters. Cataloged as Arp 273 (also as UGC 1810), the galaxies do look peculiar, but interacting galaxies are now understood to be common in the universe. In fact, the nearby large spiral Andromeda Galaxy is known to be some 2 million light-years away and approaching the Milky Way. Arp 273 may offer an analog of their far future encounter. Repeated galaxy encounters on a cosmic timescale can ultimately result in a merger into a single galaxy of stars. From our perspective, the bright cores of the Arp 273 galaxies are separated by only a little over 100,000 light-years.