Stephan's Quintet, stevebryson

Stephan's Quintet

Stephan's Quintet, stevebryson

Stephan's Quintet

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Description

The redder galaxies are in the processes of merging. Notice the faint tail to the right of the blue galaxy? That is a streamer of stars thrown out by the gravitational interaction of the redder galaxies.

The bluer galaxy is a chance alignment, and is 10 times closer.

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Stephan's Quintet, stevebryson

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