Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 9, also known as NGC 2523.

NGC 2523 is the bright barred spiral galaxy on the left side of this image. The edge-on spiral galaxy to the right is NGC 2523 B. They are both in the same group of galaxies are are about 180 million light years away.

Credit: KPNO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, Adam Block
Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n2523block/

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NOIRLab image of the week

Hiltner Under the Darkness

Credits: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2536a/

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Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 9, also known as NGC 2523.

NGC 2523 is the bright barred spiral galaxy on the left side of this image. The edge-on spiral galaxy to the right is NGC 2523 B. They are both in the same group of galaxies are are about 180 million light years away.

Credit: KPNO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, Adam Block
Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n2523block/

#ArpGalaxy #Galaxy #Space #Astronony #KPNO

Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 9, also known as NGC 2523.

NGC 2523 is the bright barred spiral galaxy on the left side of this image. The edge-on spiral galaxy to the right is NGC 2523 B. They are both in the same group of galaxies are are about 180 million light years away.

Credit: KPNO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, Adam Block
Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n2523block/

#ArpGalaxy #Galaxy #Space #Astronony #KPNO

Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 9, also known as NGC 2523.

NGC 2523 is the bright barred spiral galaxy on the left side of this image. The edge-on spiral galaxy to the right is NGC 2523 B. They are both in the same group of galaxies are are about 180 million light years away.

Credit: KPNO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, Adam Block
Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n2523block/

#ArpGalaxy #Galaxy #Space #Astronony #KPNO

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

McMath Solar Telescope (later renamed the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope). Kitt Peak, Arizona. February 1979.

Scanned from a 35mm Ektachrome slide. #OldPhotos #Ektachrome #Arizona #KittPeak #KPNO #Astronomy #Ioligam