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Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola
Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to this image of NGC 7253 — a pair of spiral galaxies caught in each other’s gravity. This image was captured by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, one half of the International Gemini Observatory , partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and operated by NSF NOIRLab. The name of the image, which translates to “The Twin Spirits…
- Credit
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Telescope
- Gemini North
- Release
- noirlab2621a
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- NOIRLab release page
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