Hubble showed the collision of two galaxies
- January 8, 2024
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured in a single image the peculiar galaxy Arp 122, which consists of two galaxies in the process of colliding (NGC 6040 and LEDA
The Hubble Space Telescope captured in a single image the peculiar galaxy Arp 122, which consists of two galaxies in the process of colliding (NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642).
This was reported by the ESA observatory, according to Ukrinform’s report.
As mentioned, this strange galaxy is located almost 570 million light-years away from Earth.
In the corner of the image you can see the elliptical galaxy NGC 6041, also located in Arp 122.
Galactic collisions and mergers occur very slowly due to the large distances between space objects. For example, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with its closest “neighbor”, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), in four billion years.
As Ukrinform reports, the Hubble space telescope recorded weather changes for three years on the massive scale of Jupiter, where temperatures rose above two thousand degrees Celsius.
Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Credit: L. Shatz
Source: Ukrinform
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