Posts Tagged ‘interacting galaxies’
Merging Y
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?
Polar Ring “t”
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.
Quasar-like “Q”
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
NGC 1614’s bright center glows with a quasar-like brightness in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. And with its faint tail, the interacting galaxy resembles the letter “Q” as our starry alphabet hunt continues.
P-Shapes in Phoenix
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and M. Stiavelli (STScI)
An older, redder elliptical galaxy and a gas-rich, irregular, blue galaxy merge to form a rough “P”-shape in this image of NGC 454 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Mashed “M”
Credit: NASA, ESA and R. Sharples (University of Durham, U.K.)
Even though galaxies are widely spaced in the universe, they do bump into each other in a cosmic mashup. The dust lanes of NGC 7174, middle right, are mangled to form the letter “M” in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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