Photo of Hubble Interacting Galaxy ESO 593-8 (2008-04-24)

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ESO 593-8 is an impressive pair of interacting galaxies with a feather-like galaxy crossing a companion galaxy. The two components will probably merge to form a single galaxy in the future. The pair is adorned with a number of bright blue star clusters. ESO 593-8 is located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Archer, some 650 million light-years away from Earth.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

About the object
Object name	ESO 593-8, ESO 593-IG008
Object description	Interacting Galaxies
Position (J2000)	19 14 31.11 -21 19 06.3
Constellation	Sagittarius
Distance	650 million light-years (200 million parsecs)
About the data
Data description	The Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Instrument	ACS/WFC
Exposure date(s)	March 19, 2002
Exposure time	33 minutes
Filters	F435W (B) and F814W (I)

Date

24 April 2008

Source

https://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/af/ (direct link)

Author

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. Hubble material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that NASA and ESA is credited as the source of the material. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute and for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre under Contract NAS5-26555. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.

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