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Cosmic Rose
April 26 , 2021
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- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared an image of “Cosmic Rose”.
- Cosmic Rose is an image captured by Hubble Space Telescope of NASA.
- The image featured interacting galaxies Arp 273.
Arp 273
- It lies in the Andromeda constellation.
- It is 300 million light years away from the earth.
- It is a combination of spiral galaxy UGC 1810 and UGC 1813.
- UGC 1810 is five times heavier than UGS 1813.
- The UGC 1810 has a disc that is tidally distorted into a rose like shape.
- The distortion is mainly due to the gravitational pull of UGC 1813 that lies beneath.
- This has been captured by Hubble Space Telescope.
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