The vast, endless existence that exists beyond our planet fascinating images of the universe We believe that there is no one who is speechless to you. Whether it is a picture of a galaxy, a star or a black hole; Images from space have always impressed us humans and made us wonder about our place in this vast universe.

Now a new one has been added to these images. Newly shared and moments when two galaxies interact The image in question showed us once again what amazing events are happening beyond our little planet, even if we don’t realize it.

The ‘dance of the galaxies’ takes place 60 million light-years from Earth

Extremely crazy things happen when giant galaxies interact and merge. These two galaxies that you saw above are both in a process that has been going on for less than half a billion years. ‘in the cosmic dance’ it seems like they are interlocking.

Galaxies with every spin taking place on this intergalactic dance floor; they replace each other permanently. When the dance is finished, these two galaxies, a single giant galaxy combine to form.

The largest of the affected galaxies in the image captured by the 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile, which appears to be slowly dissolving NGC 1512 galaxy, the little one NGC 1510 It is a dwarf lenticular galaxy. These two galaxies, which are located in the direction of the constellation Horologium, are approximately 60 million light years away is located.

So what happens when two galaxies merge?

Galaxies are quite far apart in space; however through cosmic time Gradually they get along. The change and development of galaxies takes place thanks to these interactions. In fact the world is in galaxy It also interacts with other galaxies. Even now it can be said that our galaxy has swallowed some dwarf galaxies and added the stars in these galaxies to its population.

The shown interaction of NGS 1510 and NGC 1512 is also a good example of what happened in this process. During this interaction, the gravitational pull of the two galaxies towards each other, especially in the outer spiral arms of the larger galaxy. massive star forming waves stimulated its emergence. As a result, astronomers ‘starburst’ The so-called event took place and long, blue strands of hot, young stars formed here were thrown into space.

This image is actually a small part of a larger study on dark matter.

This galactic dance scene was captured as part of a larger image captured by the Blanco Telescope, equipped with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), developed as part of Dark Energy Research. The main goal of the research in question is to gain more information about dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe.

As part of 6 years of research, DECam explored the southern sky. About 300 million galaxies across its 5,000 degree square managed to collect data. This image showing the interaction of galaxies is one of the detailed images obtained in the study. If you take a closer look at the image, you can see even more distant galaxies that form the background of the two interacting galaxies.