Wednesday, 25 November 2015

The Antennae


The Antennae
Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies are colliding. The stars in the two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, very rarely collide in the course of the ponderous cataclysm, lasting hundreds of millions of years. But their large clouds of molecular gas and dust often do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the cosmic wreckage.

Spanning about 500 thousand light-years, this stunning composited view also reveals new star clusters and matter flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational tidal forces. The remarkable collaborative image is a mosaic constructed using data from small and large ground-based telescopes to bring out large-scale and faint tidal streams, composited with the bright cores imaged in extreme detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Of course, the suggestive visual appearance of the extended arcing structures gives the galaxy pair its popular name - The Antennae.

Image & info via APOD
Image Data: Subaru, NAOJ, NASA/ESA/Hubble, R.W. Olsen - Processing: Federico Pelliccia and Rolf Wahl Olsen

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35 comments:

  1. Wisdom-Mercy Swerington25 November 2015 at 00:56

    Awesome

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  2. salman manzoor25 November 2015 at 01:33

    This would eventually happen to milky way and andromeda as well.

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  3. Sam Collett25 November 2015 at 01:34

    An intergalactic embrace - leading to little baby galaxies?

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  4. Anirudh Thakar25 November 2015 at 03:48

    Gr8 pic

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  5. Lorraine Judy25 November 2015 at 04:04

    Yj

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  6. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:10

    Cool

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  7. Brian Campagnano25 November 2015 at 05:13

    Photography Shopped ? ! ?

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  8. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:17

    No

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  9. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:23

    Where did you come from???

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  10. Nicholas Fermin25 November 2015 at 05:29

    It looks like a butt that farted a blue light

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  11. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:29

    Brian

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  12. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:29

    Jajaja

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  13. Antony Peralta25 November 2015 at 05:30

    By

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  14. LoRea Davis25 November 2015 at 06:12

    That is so awesome

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  15. Kelvin Cribbs25 November 2015 at 06:18

    Spectacular, Awesome, wonderfully beautiful is The Handy work of God.

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  16. Tim Hensley25 November 2015 at 06:55

    E:-p

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  17. James Larkin Smyth25 November 2015 at 07:19

    This type of post never ceases to amaze me.

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  18. Gaming with Nahomy25 November 2015 at 09:10

    So cool!

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  19. Roadster 9225 November 2015 at 12:15

    Its forming a heart shape... Or is that a booty twerking? Lol...your Imagination is the answer... Hehe

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  20. Alex Ancik25 November 2015 at 12:17

    It's so cool almost like an upside down heart

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  21. Laura Cintron25 November 2015 at 12:18

    I agree only the hand of God could make something like that happen he has control of everything

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  22. Deanna Bardo25 November 2015 at 12:44

    It looks so neat

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  23. Cornelius Mitchell25 November 2015 at 16:49

    That is awesome

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  24. Cornelius Mitchell25 November 2015 at 16:50

    That is awesome

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  25. Juliza Montano25 November 2015 at 16:59

    That looks cool

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  26. mike jones25 November 2015 at 18:44

    r th f2f jy

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  27. Juliza Montano25 November 2015 at 18:45

    Wat????

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  28. Catherine Boyd25 November 2015 at 20:13

    God its like a love story

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  29. Khyrra Martin25 November 2015 at 20:29


    So pretty god can do anything

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  30. Crystal Weber25 November 2015 at 20:55

    Hi

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  31. Francia Martinez26 November 2015 at 11:22

    raro

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  32. Francia Martinez26 November 2015 at 11:22

    so weird

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  33. Black Noise29 November 2015 at 08:31

    Corvus the fire Crow

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  34. Crystal Weber5 December 2015 at 11:22

    Hi

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  35. Donna Beard6 December 2015 at 16:34

    I agree, that only God could create something so BEAUITFUL! THERE IS SOO MUCH THAT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER DOES DO,and people just DO NOT SEE IT!

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