Posts Tagged ‘Hickson Compact Group 31’

Galactic Gator

18 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Gal­lagher (The Uni­ver­sity of West­ern Ontario), and J. Eng­lish (Uni­ver­sity of Manitoba)

A galac­tic gator looms in this image of the inter­act­ing galax­ies of the Hick­son Com­pact Group 31. Four dwarf galax­ies are in the process of col­lid­ing, light­ing up the sky as new stars come to life.

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