A Rose Made of Galaxies for Spock
by Vicki Maheu
Title
A Rose Made of Galaxies for Spock
Artist
Vicki Maheu
Medium
Photograph - Photograph, Digital Art
Description
A rose, of galaxies, for Leonard Nimoy.
He'll be missed, but you know, he did live long, and prosper!
Photo by NASA, Captions and some photo enhancement by Vicki Maheu
The original photo of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of tidal interactions with the smaller of the two. It is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one.
Original photo licensed by NASA under Creative Commons 3.0.
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February 27th, 2015
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