Tag Archive for 'NGC 474'

This Hubble image shows the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Carter, Liverpool John Moores University / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Catholic University of America.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Giant Elliptical Galaxy

May 19, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The subject of the new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy located some 100 million light-years from...

This image, taken by the FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the interacting galaxy pair NGC 470-NGC 474. Image credit: ESO.

VLT Spots Two Interacting Galaxies

Jan 13, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured a striking view of two interacting galaxies NGC 470 and NGC 474. This image, taken by the...