Zooming in on Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

Zooming in on Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

This video zooms in on spiral galaxy ESO 137-001, which is undergoing ram pressure stripping. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle). It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the galaxy obtained by Hubble.

Distance: 220 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH) and Serge Meunier

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Nov. 12, 2014

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