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| Winning Hubble Telescope Contest Target | 05.22.2009 08:30 |
| Towards the end of January I wrote a post about the contest that NASA held online to vote from a panel of six candidates for a target to point the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at. As you probably already heard, a great choice was made by the voters: Arp 274, a group of three interesting galaxies. It received about 47.9% of the vote, out of about 140,000 votes. | |
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Arp 274 HST ImageThe above image is the result of the contest. The galaxy group was imaged from April 1-2, 2009. It reveals that the three galaxies are in fact not gravitationally perturbing one another, as previously thought. That is because the galaxies are all keeping their shapes intact, and therefore are not actually near one another but only coincide in our line of sight. A high-resolution image can be downloaded here, where you can see in detail for yourself the beautiful barred spirals and smaller compact galaxy. Of course, the voting contest for the naming of the new International Space Station module garnered much more attention, but the only thing that came out of that was an exercise bike dubbed COLBERT. | |
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