Hubble Rose Interacting Galaxies Arp 273
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a rose-shaped pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 273, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of its deployment into space. Arp 273 is located approximately 300 million light-years from Earth lies in the constellation Andromeda.


Hubble Rose Interacting Galaxies Arp 273
What you see here is a larger spiral galaxies, classified as UGC 1810, with a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. This image is actually a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data using three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum.

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