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This is a system of merging galaxies with a bizarre shape. Powerful young starburst regions hang as long threadlike structures between the main galaxy cores. The system almost qualifies as an ultraluminous system, but has not yet reached the late stage of coalescence that is the norm for most ultraluminous systems. Zw II 96 is located in the constellation of Delphinus, the Dolphin, about 500 million light-years away from Earth. This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008. |
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24th April 2008 |
| Author |
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) |
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GFDL |
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Higher definition - http://spacetelescope.org/images/large/heic0810bk.jpg Full definition - A full definition TIFF file can be found on http://spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0810bk.html and then clicking on Fullsize Origional under Images. |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and the European Space Agency. Hubble material is copyright-free. Material published by NASA may be freely used as in the public domain without restriction, although NASA requests credit and notification of further use. ESA requires that they be credited as the source of any of their material that is used. The material was created for NASA by STScI under Contract NAS5-26555 and for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. [1] or [2]. |  |
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| current | 15:32, 28 April 2008 | 948×1,024 (952 KB) | SkE (Talk | contribs) | ({{Information |Description=This is a system of merging galaxies with a bizarre shape. Powerful young starburst regions hang as long threadlike structures between the main galaxy cores. The system almost qualifies as an ultraluminous system, but has not ye) |
| 15:26, 28 April 2008 | 247×225 (57 KB) | SkE (Talk | contribs) | ({{Information |Description=This is a system of merging galaxies with a bizarre shape. Powerful young starburst regions hang as long threadlike structures between the main galaxy cores. The system almost qualifies as an ultraluminous system, but has not ye) | |
| 16:16, 27 April 2008 | 600×600 (112 KB) | SkE (Talk | contribs) | ({{Information |Description=This is a system of merging galaxies with a bizarre shape. Powerful young starburst regions hang as long threadlike structures between the main galaxy cores. The system almost qualifies as an ultraluminous system, but has not ye) |
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| File change date and time | 16:28, 28 April 2008 |
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