The delicate aftermath of cosmic violence

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
May 4, 2011 3:57 PMNov 19, 2019 11:49 PM

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My love affair with spiral galaxies is well documented here on this blog. Of course, I'm biased: I live in one. But some of them demand a little more attention than others, like the oddly off-kilter NGC 2442, aka the Meat Hook Galaxy:

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