Meathook Galaxy

By Ben on May 4, 2011 at 9:46 am | In Blog Posts | No Comments

Nice eye candy.
–Ben

Two views of a lopsided galaxy [heic1108]

The Meathook Galaxy, or NGC 2442, has a dramatically lopsided shape. One spiral arm is tightly folded in on itself and host to a recent supernova, while the other, dotted with recent star formation, extends far out from the nucleus. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope have captured two contrasting views of this asymmetric spiral galaxy…

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=48686