October 19, 2012 - RedOrbit
Many
images that we see from the space observatories are beautiful.
Swirling colors and bright galaxies make for amazing images. But an
image just released from the ground-based Gemini Observatory
of the polar-ring galaxy NGC 660 might be the most hauntingly beautiful
image ever. Add in the back story of a colorful and dramatic tale of
two galaxies locked in a life-and-death struggle, and the picture
becomes poetry in motion.
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