Journey to Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714 in Pisces | Hubble Space Telescope

Journey to Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714 in Pisces | Hubble Space Telescope

This video zooms in on NGC 7714, one of a pair of merging galaxies. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Pisces. It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the galaxy obtained by Hubble. NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth—a relatively close neighbor in cosmic terms. The galaxy has witnessed violent and dramatic events in its recent past. Tell-tale signs of this can be seen in NGC 7714's strangely shaped arms, and in the smoky golden haze that stretches out from the galactic center—caused by an ongoing merger with its smaller galactic companion NGC 7715, outside the frame of this image.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and A. Fuji

Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 29, 2015

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