Zooming Into Galaxy Pair NGC 3314
June 15, 2012
This video begins with an image of the whole night sky, before zooming in to the constellation of Hydra and the curious pair of galaxies catalogued as NGC 3314. These two galaxies are actually separated by around 20 million light years, even if from our vantage point they look like they are in the midst of a collision. The video ends with detailed Hubble observations of the two galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA,
Topics:
Extragalactic astronomy, Spiral galaxies, Astronomy, ESA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NGC 2207 and IC, Interacting galaxies, NGC, Intermediate spiral galaxies, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Barred spiral galaxies, Peculiar galaxies, Galaxy
