APOD 1.1

I chose the picture on June 24th 2013. It is an image of the Porpoise Galaxy and I chose this since it actually looks like a penguin. It is pretty funny as it is blue and has a star right where the eye would be on a penguin and it has a large glowing object underneath that looks exactly like a penguin egg. After reading the explanation underneath, I found out that this is actually two galaxies that smashed into each other to form the shape. It used to be one spiral galaxy and one elliptical galaxy that just got too close to each other. This amazing image was actually taken by the Hubble telescope which is no surprise to me as it seems that all amazing images of space are by the Hubble.