Eyes in the Sky
NASA Hubble and Spitzer telescopes combined to make these shape-shifting galaxies taking on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, and the mask is their spiral arms.
- Date
- 2006-04-26
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Vassar
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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