Posts Tagged ‘colliding galaxies’
Swirling W
10 August 2011
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Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
Looping arcs of stars and dust create a cosmic letter “W” caught in the middle of this galactic encounter.
Polar Ring “t”
05 August 2011
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The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
An extraordinary polar ring “t” shows the bizarre variety of interacting galaxies in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4650A.
Galactic I
21 July 2011
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Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
A pair of interacting galaxies line up to form the letter “I” in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. UGC 9618 is in the first stages of merging.
Curling C
13 July 2011
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NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Galaxy interactions create all sorts of curls and odd shapes. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of UGC 4881, the letter ‘C’ spirals out in deep space.
Galactic Niner
08 July 2011
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Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
Merging together to form the number 9, two galaxies comprise AM0500-620.
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