the-star-stuff: Warped Galaxy Image courtesy ESA/NASA A galaxy slightly smaller than our own Milky Way is getting its arm twisted, and a cosmic bully may be to blame. As seen in a picture released in August by scientists with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, one of galaxy NGC 2146’s arms is bent at a 45-degree angle, such that the dense limb has looped in front of the galaxy’s core, as seen from Earth. The most likely explanation is that the gravity of an unidentified nearby galaxy is disturbing NGC 2146’s arm, causing the galaxy to warp. (See NASA astronomers’ picks for the best Hubble pictures to date.)
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Warped Galaxy

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A galaxy slightly smaller than our own Milky Way is getting its arm twisted, and a cosmic bully may be to blame.

As seen in a picture released in August by scientists with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, one of galaxy NGC 2146’s arms is bent at a 45-degree angle, such that the dense limb has looped in front of the galaxy’s core, as seen from Earth.

The most likely explanation is that the gravity of an unidentified nearby galaxy is disturbing NGC 2146’s arm, causing the galaxy to warp.

(See NASA astronomers’ picks for the best Hubble pictures to date.)

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