Peculiar Galaxies - Arp 273 Size:40x50 cm Its nickname once came from

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The Image was reprocessed from the raw (Fits data) by the astrophotographer and founder of Cosmonity Michał Ostaszewski using the latest techniques and tools which was not available at the time of capturing this image by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014

a new version of the image known as "the Pale Blue Dot

Peculiar Galaxies - Arp 273 Size:40x50 cm Its nickname once came fromTwo misshapen spiral galaxies combine to form a beautiful celestial flower in this Hubble image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3. Known as Arp 273, the pair is among hundreds of "peculiar" galaxies catalogued by astronomer Halton Arp in the 1960s. The gravitational attraction between these two galaxies has created their physical distortions. The outermost arm of the larger spiral appears to have been pulled into a wide ring around the galaxy a