Hubble’s dazzling display of 2 colliding galaxies
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 16:20
in Astronomy & Space
Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel and were originally classified as a single irregular galaxy because of their odd shape. However, we now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that […]