The One-Armed Wonder: Hubble Captures a Twisted Galaxy in Dazzling Detail

A distant and dazzling spiral galaxy, Arp 184 (NGC 1961), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a stunningly lopsided structure, with one prominent star-strewn arm stretching toward Earth. This cosmic oddity resides in the constellation Camelopardalis and earns its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a collection of the universe’s strangest-shaped galaxies. Scientists […]

May 5, 2025
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Spiral Galaxy Arp 184A distant and dazzling spiral galaxy, Arp 184 (NGC 1961), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a stunningly lopsided structure, with one prominent star-strewn arm stretching toward Earth. This cosmic oddity resides in the constellation Camelopardalis and earns its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a collection of the universe’s strangest-shaped galaxies. Scientists […]

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