Hubble Celebrates 21 Years in Space (2011)
2011 · Short film · 1 min
Synopsis
The Hubble Space Telescope presented astronomers with this rosy picture on the celebration of its completion of 21 years since it was deployed in 1990. This especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda and is roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC…
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