Stunning First Images From Rebooted Hubble: Bizarre “Oddball” Galaxies

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These images, from a program led by Julianne Dalcanton of the University of Washington in Seattle, demonstrate Hubble’s return to full science operations.

ARP-MADORE2115-273 is a rarely observed example of a pair of interacting galaxies in the southern hemisphere.

ARP-MADORE0002-503 is a large spiral galaxy with unusual, extended spiral arms. While most disk galaxies have an even number of spiral arms, this one has three. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton (UW) Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

These two peculiar galaxies are part of a program to survey oddball galaxies scattered across the sky.

These early snapshots demonstrate Hubble’s return to full science operations, following correction of a computer anomaly aboard the spacecraft. Normal science observations were restarted on July 17, at 1:18 pm EDT. Among the early targets are globular star clusters in other galaxies and aurorae on the giant planet Jupiter, in addition to a look at bizarre galaxies.

See the photos in the link below.

https://scitechdaily.com/stunning-first-images-from-rebooted-hubble-bizarre-oddball-galaxies/