Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies: Strong-Arming a Galaxy - SciTechDaily

The pumped-up arm of the lopsided spiral galaxy NGC 772 dominates this image captured by the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab. The overdeveloped spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 772, which was formed by tidal interactions with an unrul…

The overdeveloped spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 772, which was created by tidal interactions with an unruly neighbor, dominates this observation made by astronomers using the Gemini North telescope lo… [+2864 chars]

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