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Intergalactic Rodeo

02 June 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

A starry sea­horse with a large curl­ing tail low­ers its head for a col­li­sion in this image of IC 4687 from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Galaxian Dragonfly

27 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

This galax­ian drag­on­fly, wings folded, rests deep in space. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope clearly shows a pair of merg­ing, edge-on galax­ies called NGC 6670. Astronomers believe the two galax­ies have already had one close encounter with each other and are mak­ing a sec­ond pass. The galax­ies are just 50,000 light years apart. For com­par­i­son, our Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light-years wide and the near­est large galaxy to it is the Androm­eda Galaxy at two mil­lion light-years away.

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Galactic Fireworks

31 December 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. McQuinn (Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota, Minneapolis)

Watch­ing fire­works is always enjoy­able but see­ing bursts of star-making light up a galaxy caps a great year of astronomy.

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