Sometimes the detector just isn't quite big enough. Two spirals; one fell off the edge. The telescope seems to have been preferentially pointed towards the more irregularly shaped spiral. Did the southern galaxy pass by the northern one recently and pull on its arms to get it this way, or was there something we can no longer see?
The southern galaxy looks so regular that I would doubt it interacted with anything recently if I saw it by itself.
Maybe there wasn't any interaction. Maybe that's just how they're both shaped.
Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems
All Channels: ACS/WFC F606W
North is 35.34° clockwise from up.
Tags: HST Hubble Prop15446 15446 spiral galaxy galaxies star formation interaction
Cassini's imminent demise got me thinkin' about Saturn and the meaning of life and everything. It's not hard at all to get me to feel sad or depressed as some of you may have noticed, but that aside it's still pretty darn depressing.
These two uploads are a couple of 3D renderings I made quite a while ago using Blender/Cycles. And I have to mention that I used Björn Jónsson's planetary maps for them, because he is great, and it would be a shame to pass up a chance to point you to such a excellent resource. bjj.mmedia.is/data/planetary_maps.html
Tags: Saturn 3d illustration Blender Cycles
XZ Tauri is the spiky star nearest to center.
HST_9863_01_ACS_WFC_F625W_sci
HST_9863_01_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci
Tags: XZTau XZTauri F625W F658N hubbleshiddentreasures2012 esahubble hubblelegacyarchive hubble
This took longer than I expected. Chandra's observations of this area of the sky are numerous, and combining them turned out to be complex. I admit I found myself losing patience with it, especially since this view is not exactly something unseen before. You may have seen it before, though that image also contains radio data. I'd love to also include radio data, but that's some of the hardest data to process, and I can't see myself doing it... ever, really.
Definitely check out the numerous articles on the Perseus Cluster if you'd like to learn more about how this crazy black hole in the center of this galaxy is doing things on a ridiculously epic scale in spacetime.
chandra.si.edu/search_results.html?cx=0033617573934318283...
Chandra processing information only:
Data from a multitude of observations were combined to create the x-ray image, shown here as a blue screen over the Hubble data.
Hubble processing information only:
Data from the following proposal were used to create this image:
The filaments of NGC1275
A luminosity layer was created by using pseudogreen in the green channel instead of F550M. Helps make the tendrils much more visible.
Red: ACS/WFC F625W
Green: ACS/WFC F550M
Blue: ACS/WFC F435W
North is up.
An image from 2013. Surprised it hasn't already been caught by someone else. I'm sure they'll get to it soon enough. Just a wonderful portrait of a galaxy and a nice dataset to work with. Part of the LEGUS program.
LEGUS: Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey
Red: hst_13364_69_wfc3_uvis_f814w_sci
Green: hst_13364_69_wfc3_uvis_f555w_sci
Blue: hst_13364_69_wfc3_uvis_f438w_sci, hst_13364_69_wfc3_uvis_f336w_sci, hst_13364_69_wfc3_uvis_f275w_sci
North is NOT up. It is 41.3° counter-clockwise from up.
Tags: NGC1512 Hubble UVIS spiral galaxy dust WFC3