ESO 510-G13 is a spiral galaxy approximately 150 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The equatorial dust cloud is heavily warped; this may indicate that ESO 510-G13 has interacted with another galaxy. If this is the case, it would provide an excellent illustration of the distortion caused by interacting galaxies, discussed in the article Galaxy formation and evolution under the Spiral galaxy heading.

ESO 510-G13
Spiral galaxy ESO 510-G13 by Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationHydra
Right ascension13h 55m 04.3s[1]
Declination−26° 46′ 50″[1]
Redshift3455 ± 9 km/s[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)13.4[1]
Characteristics
TypeSa: pec sp[1]
Apparent size (V)1.9 × 1.3[1]
Other designations
MCG-04-33-013,[1] PGC 49473[1]

This galaxy was examined by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for ESO 510-G13. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
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