Tag: Galaxies
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The Hubble Telescope Just Captured Two Galaxies Colliding Into Each Other
This slow-motion trainwreck of a galaxy merger is weird, messy, and dramatic — and we just can’t look away. 465 million light-years away, two galaxies are colliding. Immense tidal forces have distorted both galaxies, leaving the larger one noticeably off-kilter. The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped this candid image of galaxy pair Arp 107 during…
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SpaceTwo Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear Bedazzled With Glittering Rings Of Gas
Rings aren’t just for planets anymore; some galaxies have them, too, on an even grander scale. Astronomers just discovered a pair of spiral galaxies that appear to be adorned with wispy loops of hydrogen gas, studded with stars, perpendicular to their spiral arms. These galaxies, which astronomers call polar ring galaxies (because the ring orbits…