Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.<\/p>\n
Good morning. It\u2019s November 14, and today\u2019s photograph is drop-dead gorgeous. It features an astronomical feature known as Arp 273\u2014so named because it was part of an atlas of peculiar galaxies compiled by American astronomer Halton Arp six decades ago.<\/p>\n
In this case, Arp 273 is not one but two galaxies located about 300 million light-years from Earth. The two spiral galaxies are in the process of interacting with one another, and astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope believe the distinct signs of intense star formation in the nucleus of the smaller galaxy were probably triggered by the encounter with the larger one.<\/p>\n
Our photo today was not shot by the Hubble Space Telescope, however, but by James Peirce, an amateur astrophotographer and reader of Ars. (One of the delights of starting this little feature has been realizing how many of our readers are fantastically talented sky photographers).<\/p>\n
Peirce shot this with his Celestron EdgeHD 8-inch telescope from his backyard in Utah.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese galaxies are stupid far away and rather \u2018small\u2019 from our perspective, making them a very challenging target to image through the pursuit of amateur tomfoolery, but I have wanted to image these for some time,\u201d he said of this image. \u201cI got my chance on October 8, 2023, thanks to a gorgeous clear night in the desert with a strikingly stable atmosphere, no wind, no Moon until later into the night, and these jewels passing overhead. I\u2019ll take it as the universe tossing me a bone ahead of what may well be another long, cold, stormy winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: James Peirce.<\/p>\n
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