The Hubble Contest Winner - Arp 274. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Remember the recent Hubble contest where we got to vote on the target to be imaged? Yeah the one that I lost hahahaha!
The image has been released and it was indeed a worthy subject. A good choice and a great job by Hubble and the people “behind” the telescope. Those people get little credit for their efforts, so here is my hat tip to them.
You can click the image above for a larger version. Be sure to check out Hubblesitefor the largest versions and a video.
The Hubble press release:
On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute’s “You Decide” competition in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The winner is a group of galaxies called Arp 274. The striking object received 67,021 votes out of the nearly 140,000 votes cast for the six candidate targets.
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