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Description	Discovered by astronomer William Herschel in the late 1700s, NGC 201 is a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster), and is invisible to the naked eye. More information: <a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1426a/" rel="nofollow">www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1426a/</a> Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola
Date	30 June 2014, 10:00
Source	A fossil in the making
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Credit/Provider	ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola
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Short title	A fossil in the making
Image title	Discovered by astronomer William Herschel in the late 1700s, NGC 201 is a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster), and is invisible to the naked eye. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 201 shows the galaxy in striking detail, capturing the bright centre and the barred spiral arms— arms that do not start directly from the galactic centre, but instead seem to be offset and stem from a "bar" of stars cutting through the middle of the galaxy. Along with three of its closest galactic neighbours (outside the frame), NGC 201 belongs to a group known as the HCG 7 compact galacticgroup. Hickson Compact Groups (HCG) are relatively small and isolated systems containing a handful of bright, compact galaxies that lie close to one another. As the galaxies within these groups move closer together they interact strongly, dragging galactic material out into space and distorting thestructure of the other group members. Eventually, all the galaxies within one HCG will merge together. Simulations have shown that within a billion years, the galaxies within one HCG have merged to form a giant fossil galaxy. It is possible that this is the final fate of all galactic groups. A version of this image was submitted to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Luca Limatola.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
Date and time of data generation	10:00, 30 June 2014
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:990B44888528E311BEA1AD4C04C466FB
Keywords	HCG 7 NGC 201
Contact information	http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei M√ºnchen, , D-85748 Germany
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