Image: Hubble spots a merging galactic gem
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2,
an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion.
a citizen science project involving hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the world
who classified galaxies to help scientists solve a problem of astronomical proportions:
how to sort through the vast amounts of data generated by telescopes.
A public vote selected the most astronomically intriguing objects for follow-up observations with Hubble.
CGCG 396-2 is one such object, imaged here by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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