Sentences with phrase «galaxy collision images»
Hubble's collection of galaxy collision images vividly illustrates the progression of a collision from approach to interaction, through tidal tail development, and ending in the merger of the galaxies.
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It combines visible light images from Hubble and the Very Large telescope (shown in blue, green, and red)- which show gas and stars - with X-ray images from Chandra (shown in pink) which picks out extremely hot gas in between the galaxies, heated by the collision.
In the Fornax cluster (right) the core cloud is swept back like a comet's tail toward the top of the image, indicating it is moving through even more diffuse gas on a collision course with the galaxy at lower left.
Astronomers are studying the combined image in an attempt to decipher the sequence of galaxy - cluster collisions.
«Shocking results of galaxy - cluster collisions: Multi-wavelength image helping astronomers decipher complex collision history.»
The Cartwheel galaxy's concentric rings of star formation were probably triggered by a collision with a smaller galaxy, possibly one of the ones in the bottom - left of this multi-wavelength image.
Hubble's images show that they are like the remnants of galaxy collisions.
I am co-author (together with my friends Lars Lindberg Christensen and Raquel Yumi Shida) of «Cosmic Collisions - The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies», a book containing a hundred new images of colliding galaxies from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space TeGalaxies», a book containing a hundred new images of colliding galaxies from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Tegalaxies from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Dazzling eyelid - like features bursting with stars in galaxy IC 2163 formed from a tsunami of stars and gas triggered by a glancing collision with galaxy NGC 2207 (a portion of its spiral arm is shown on right side of image).
An image of the present day line - up for the collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy.
3.75 billion years from now - the nighttime sky showing the Andromeda galaxy (M31) early in its collision with our Milky Way galaxy (Image: NASA / STScI)
Another tantalizing possibility is that the low - frequency images may reveal «halos» and «relics» produced by collisions of galaxies in clusters.