A New Angle on Two Spiral Galaxies for Hubble's 27th Birthday
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 09:42
in Astronomy & Space
Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 27th birthday with a striking pair of very different looking spiral galaxies. The edge-on galaxy (left) is called NGC 4302, and the tilted galaxy (right) is called NGC 4298. Although the pinwheel galaxies look quite different because they are angled at different positions on the sky, they are actually quite similar in terms of their structure and contents.