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"A Galaxy Scores a Bullseye": Irregular Spiral Galaxy NGC 922 in Fornax | Hubble

"A Galaxy Scores a Bullseye": Irregular Spiral Galaxy NGC 922 in Fornax | Hubble

NGC 922 is a galaxy that has been hit square-on by another. Ripples of star-formation are still propagating out across thousands of light-years of space over 300 million years after the collision, making it a prime example of what astronomers call a collisional ring galaxy.

Distance from Earth: 150 million light years


Credit: ESA/Hubble
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser
Written by: Oli Usher
Presented by: Dr Joe Liske (Dr J)
Narrator: Sara Mendes da Costa
Images: NASA, ESA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Visualisations and animations: B. Conn (MPIA), R. Smith (University of Concepción), R. Taylor (Arecibo Observatory); M. Kornmesser
Directed by: Oli Usher
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Duration: 4 minutes, 20 seconds
Release Date: Dec. 6, 2012


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