Deep-Sky Dreams: Peculiar galaxy NGC 520

The sky is full of strange galaxies. A century ago Edwin Hubble discovered this, and a slew of researchers in the past century have cataloged these strange and troubled objects, perhaps most importantly Halton Arp with his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.  There’s a bright and highly distorted galaxy in the constellation Pisces, lying some 100Continue reading “Deep-Sky Dreams: Peculiar galaxy NGC 520”
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