IC 883 (Arp 193)

IC 883 displays a very disturbed, complex central region with two tidal tails of approximately the same length emerging at nearly right angles: one diagonally to the top right of the frame and the other to the bottom right. The twin tidal tails suggest that IC 883 is the remnant of the merger of two gas-rich disk galaxies. The collision appears to have triggered a burst of star formation, indicated by a number of bright star clusters in the central region. IC 883 is 300 million light-years away toward the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs. It is Number 193 in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.
Technical facts about this image About the object
Object name: IC 883, UGC 08387, Arp 193, VV 821, I Zw 056
Object description: Interacting Galaxies
Position (J2000): 13 20 35.54
+34 08 21.5
Constellation: Canes Venatici
Distance: 300 million light-years (100 million parsecs)
About the data
Data description: The Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Instrument: ACS/WFC
Exposure date(s): January 10, 2002
Exposure time: 34 minutes
Filters: F435W (B) and F814W (I)
Source

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/ba/ (direct link)
Date

24 April 2008 (2008-04-24)
Author

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

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