It is NGC 520, and was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. What Herschel didn’t know is that ultimately this object would be classified as a peculiar galaxy.

NGC 520 glows softly at magnitude 11.4 and measures 4.6′ by 1.9′. Through a 6-inch telescope at low power, you’ll think you’re looking at an edge-on spiral.

The picture below is NGC 520, a pair of interacting galaxies which started their collision 300 million years ago in the constellation Pisces. It is about 100 million light-years away and 100,000 ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Space. See 4K Imagery Of Colliding Galaxies From Siena Galaxy Atlas. Posted: July 30, 2024 | Last updated: July 30, 2024. See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 ...

NGC 520 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas. ... This galaxy appears face-on from Earth, ...

NGC 520’s unique shape is a result of a two-galaxy collision – one galaxy’s dust lane can be seen easily in the foreground. Our own galaxy – the Milky Way – will collide with the ...

The galaxy NGC 2090 was imaged by Webb, shown above, using its MIRI and NIRCam instruments. These instruments operate in the mid-infrared and near-infrared portions of the electromagnetic ...

It is NGC 520, and was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. What Herschel didn't know is that ultimately this object would be classified as a peculiar galaxy.