Galaxy NGC 2276 Poster Size:L - 70 x 50cm Madrid (Australian Telescope National Facility)

Madrid (Australian Telescope National Facility)

Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona)

Unlike most planets

The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of tidal interactions with the smaller of the two

This stunning portrait of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) isn't just a photograph

Galaxy NGC 2276 Poster Size:L - 70 x 50cm Madrid (Australian Telescope National Facility)Spiral galaxy NGC 2276 The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. A bright hub of older yellowish stars normally lies directly in the center of most spiral galaxies. But the bulge in NGC 2276 looks offset to the upper left. In reality, a neighboring galaxy to the right of NGC 2276 (NGC 2300, not seen here) is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of