esahubble_opo9635a3 November 19th, 1996
Credit: John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Mike Disney (University of Wales) and NASA/ESA
Hubble has captured a tidal tail of dust and gas beneath quasar 0316-346, located 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. The peculiar-shaped tail suggests that the host galaxy has interacted with a passing galaxy that is not in the image.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9635a3/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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