Hubble Space Telescope, which since its launch in 1990 has provided the most incredible views of the cosmos, reaches age 21 these days and NASA wanted celebrate with the publication of images of two galaxies that form a shape that resembles a rose.
Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore (Maryland) have focused the eye of the Hubble to a pair of galaxies called Arp 273 especially photogenic that interact together to form colorful images.
The largest galaxies that has a spiral shape and is known as UGC 1810, has a record that is distorted in a rose, by the attraction of the gravitational tidal bridge of his companion, known as UGC 1813.
To achieve this outcome was a composite of images taken by wide-angle camera 3, December 17, 2010, with three different filters for a broad range wavelength covering the ultraviolet, blue and red spectrum.
The Hubble was launched April 24, 1990 aboard Discovery on STS-31.
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