File:NGC 1409.png

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Two interacting galaxies, one a spiral with a tendril of dust seemingly being pulled out and wrapping around the other, an older, yellower, smoother galaxy.

h/t to William Keel, who was also the PI, for this rare color STIS picture.

This image is a reprocessed version of the following image, intended to offer some improvements to the quality: hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/02/1013-Image.h...

Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: Subarcsecond Structure in Nearby AGNs

Note color is approximate for the outer left and right part of the image. The filters only overlapped the broad central area.

Red: STIS/CCD F28X50LPMIRVIS Green: pseudo Blue: STIS/CCD 50CCD MIRVIS

North is 4.66° counter-clockwise from up.
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Source NGC 1409
Author Judy Schmidt from USA

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by geckzilla at https://flickr.com/photos/54209675@N00/49246146857 (archive). It was reviewed on 22 December 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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