Posts Tagged ‘galaxy collisions’

Merging Y

11 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

Galaxy inter­ac­tions are always impres­sive. ESO 593–8 looks like the let­ter “Y,” swoop­ing eagle or a feather. Explore the NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image of these merg­ing galax­ies. Do you see any pat­terns? What sto­ries can you tell?

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Cartwheels in the sky

29 April 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Vio­lent col­li­sions cause this galaxy to do a cart­wheel in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Translucent Giant

16 April 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Cook (Lawrence Liv­er­more National Lab­o­ra­tory, USA)

A sky full of stars and galax­ies is dom­i­nated by the translu­cent giant spi­ral galaxy called NGC 4921 in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. It has taken light from NGC 4921 about 320 mil­lion years to reach our eyes on Earth. Galax­ies in the rich back­ground are even more remote stretch­ing back to the early Universe.

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