Journey to Irregular Spiral Galaxy NGC 922 in Fornax | Hubble
This video sequence begins with a zoom from the night sky through the constellation of Fornax, finishing with Hubble observations of NGC 922, a collisional ring galaxy.
An almost complete circle of bright pink nebulae skirts around a spiral galaxy in this Hubble image. The ring structure and the galaxy’s distorted spiral shape result from a smaller galaxy scoring a cosmic bullseye, hitting the center of NGC 922 around 330 million years ago.
Distance from Earth: 150 million light years
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Dec. 6, 2012
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