Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  PGC 8961  ·  PGC 8970
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Arp 273 - The Galactic Rose, Rainer Raupach
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Arp 273 - The Galactic Rose

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Arp 273 - The Galactic Rose

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One of the most beautiful (apparently) tiny objects in the universe! The image has been strongly cropped from the original field because its size is just a few arc minutes.

A pair of interacting galaxies, approximately 300 million light years away, in the constellation of Andromeda. Most likely, the smaller galaxy (below) has passed the larger one in the cosmologically short past.

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Arp 273 - The Galactic Rose, Rainer Raupach