Arp 273, Graham Conaty
Arp 273, Graham Conaty

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Arp 273 are a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Andromeda.

This image shows a tenuous tidal bridge of material between the two galaxies that are separated from each other by tens of thousands of light-years.

The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813.

A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars.

The data for this image was obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive with post-processing carried out in PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

Comments