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Creation: Penguin in Space

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

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Hubble Space Telescope view of Arp 142 looking like a penguin guarding its egg
Photograph: Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Team/Nasa, Esa

The Hubble Space Telescope has been watching a pair of galaxies tear each other apart and – quite coincidentally – one resembles a penguin and the other its egg.

The “egg” is more correctly known as NGC 2937, and the “penguin”, which was once a spiral galaxy, NGC 2936.

The galaxies are 326 million light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

Source: The Guardian

~Eowyn


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