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CANIS MAJOR / WEBB & HUBBLE

IC 2163 & NGC 2207.A closer look.

A combined Webb and Hubble telescope detail of interacting galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 within CANIS MAJOR.

This is a telescope detail within the constellation, rather than a view of the whole constellation. The home-page sky remains the registered 2MASS survey and catalog-star study.

Published assigned-color composite: Webb mid-infrared and Hubble visible/ultraviolet observations. Not a naked-eye color view.

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The 2024 Hubble and Webb composite of interacting galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207, seen in the direction of CANIS MAJOR. A small telescope field within that constellation, not a view of the entire constellation.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Published telescope observations · Native 6,353 × 2,983

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