Massimo Stiavelli's Home Page Massimo Stiavelli's Astronomical Pictures WFPC2 image of the barred spiral NGC 986. Only the innermost 18 by 18 arcsec are shown. North is up and East is left. Only the innermost 18 by 18 arcsec are shown.
North is up and East is left.
The image shows an elliptical galaxies interacting with what probably was a spiral galaxy. The elliptical galaxy appears distorted. A butterfly planetary nebula. This nebula was observed as part of the science verification during the Hubble Servicing Mission 2 and was also released as part of the Heritage Program.