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Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

Here are some fun and unusual galaxies from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a catalog produced by Halton Arp. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966.

1. IC 883 (Arp 193), remnant of two galaxies’ merger     2. Arp 147, an interacting pair of ring galaxies 3. Giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 4. Interacting pair of galaxies: Arp 238 (UGC 8335)  5. Merging galaxy pair named NGC 520 (Arp 157)

Hubble Unveils a Tapestry of Dazzling Diamond-Like Stars

April Fools Day in 1989, billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO, and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed.

Messiere 101 pinwheel galaxy

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Drone captures a UFO?

Flying at 80 metres above Silicon Valley, the drone’s 4K camera captures the object whizzing past at an impossibly fast rate.

The drone’s owner certainly hasn’t a clue what almost collided with his expensive flying machine. The UFO is spotted flying past the drone at an incredible speed, exsperts are baffled at the speed the object is flying. By analysing the original 4k footage it’s estimated the ‘UFO’ is travelling at one mile every two seconds. Incredibly, that would mean it’s flying at around 1800 miles per hour, which is roughly 2.4 times the speed of sound, blink and you will miss it!

Won’t catch on fire. (via wandertramp)

Top 10 Bizarre Galaxy Pairs From Hubble

“The Arp catalog illustrates galaxies in many different stages of a collision:

* prior to their first close pass, * in the collision process, * subsequent to an interaction but before merging, * and in the final merger stages.

Unlike ellipticals, spirals are easily disturbed, often becoming destroyed entirely by such an interaction.”

When you take a glimpse into the deep Universe, beyond the gas, dust, stars and planets of our own galaxy, you enter the realm of the galaxies. In general, they come in two types: the spirals, with neat, orderly arms, and the ellipticals, with a symmetric, bulging shape. But for everything that exists in the Universe a particular way in general, there are exceptions. In the 1960s, astronomer Halton Arp became fascinated with these exceptions, creating a catalog of 338 examples: the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. We now know that most of these are galaxy pairs or triplets in the process of major mergers, displaying features such as tidal disruption, stellar bridges, starbursts and occasionally a rare, ring shape.

M81 & M82

NGC 1499 // California Nebula

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Amazing U.F.O Sighting Turkey 2008  (↖Link) These images where taken by a night guard at the Yeni Kent Compound in Turkey, he videotaped a number of UFO sightings over a period of several months. These sightings  were also backed up by other witnesses, spurring the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center to say that the videos were the “most important images of a UFO ever filmed, The images above are currently classified as Unexplained