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This impressive galaxy imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the unlucky ones, and goes by a name that looks more like a password for a computer: 2XMM J143450.5 +033843.
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A newly released image from NASA Hubble telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and is useful in studying far - flung galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.
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.
Decades passed before astronomical technology verified that idea: It wasn't until 1979 that astronomers detected a real - life example of a gravitational lens in the double image of a quasar — side - by - side glimpses of a galaxy's blazing heart, resembling a pair of oncoming headlights.
This image suspends them in a single moment, freezing the chaotic spray of gas, dust and stars kicked up by the gravitational forces pulling the two galaxies together.
This image, taken by accomplished astrophotographer R. Jay Gabany in collaboration with David Martinez - Delgado from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and his international team, shows for the first time in intricate detail the aftermath of a large galaxy destroying and consuming its dwarf neighbor.
The galaxy is very active, as indicated by the range of colors visible in this NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, depicting the very central region of the galaxy.
This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different looking spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 was imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Given this very close arrangement, astronomers are intrigued by the galaxies» apparent lack of any significant gravitational interaction; only a faint bridge of neutral hydrogen gas — not visible in this image — appears to stretch between them.
These arced or blobby features, seen in images of deep space, are actually distant galaxies whose light has been bent by the mass of foreground galaxies.
To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.
The image showed that the galaxy had an arc shape characteristic of gravitational lensing by an intervening galaxy, Graham reported last month at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pittsburgh.
In the end success was secured by the fact that the stone - dead galaxy was positioned behind a foreground cluster of other galaxies — a cluster which functioned as a «natural lens» by amplifying as well as enlarging the image of MACS2129 - 1.
Color variations in an image of the cosmic microwave background radiation depict temperature fluctuations caused by seeds of matter that eventually became galaxies.
However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.
A trove of galaxies, rich in carbon monoxide (indicating star - forming potential) were imaged by ALMA (orange) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
GALACTOSEISMIC ACTIVITY The Milky Way's gas (left image) and stars (right) might have been disturbed by a close run - in with a dwarf galaxy (blob at bottom left of both images), as seen in this computer simulation.
A new Hubble image shows that the spiral known as ESO 510 - 13 is beautifully warped, probably by an encounter with another galaxy.
Also in this Hubble image is another pair of probably interacting galaxies — they are hiding to the right of NGC 5256 in the far distance, and have not yet been explored by any astronomer.
This visible - light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake - shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy.
It was previously observed by Hubble as part of a collection of 59 images of merging galaxies, released on Hubble's 18th anniversary on April 24, 2008.
A striking image presented here 3 June at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society shows a globular cluster known as Palomar 5 being torn asunder by tidal forces of our home galaxy.
If a distant galaxy were lined up right behind one more close by, this warping would bend and magnify the faraway galaxy's image, a phenomenon now called gravitational lensing.
Looking at a distant galaxy: the radio chart (left) shows the image of the blazar PKS 1830 - 211 distorted by the gravitational lens effect.
The gravity exerted by the clumps bends the paths of light rays and distorts the images of the galaxies, so rather than appearing as randomly oriented ellipses on the sky, neighboring galaxies align a bit like fish in a school.
Astronomers have observed tornadolike winds powered by a central active supermassive black hole, such as the one in this image, pervading a galaxy.
This image reconstruction was made by analysing the light collected from over three million distant galaxies more than 6 billion light - years away.
Until recently, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces, but Hubble Space Telescope images suggest they are supported by magnetic fields generated near the galaxy's central black hole.
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.
To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.
More remarkable is the fact that the researchers, led by astrophysicist Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have imaged not one but seven galaxies from that early cosmic period, dating between 380 million and 600 million years after the big bang.
In order to get a strong enough signal to see it, the researchers took 1 million pairs of galaxies found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, all separated by a similar distance, and stacked their images together.
The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1 +0307, a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1 +0307, a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it presents an interesting puzzle.
An optical image of the «Tadpole» galaxy, an interacting galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Zitrin's team spotted the galaxy's gravitationally multiplied images using near - infrared and visible - light photos of the galaxy cluster taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Kashlinsky and his team at Goddard examined a deep - exposure image of a patch of sky taken by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and then subtracted the light from all the evident stars and galaxies.
«As we were searching for distant galaxies magnified by Abell 2218, we detected a pair of strikingly similar images whose arrangement and color indicate a very distant object,» explains lead author Jean - Paul Kneib of the California Institute of Technology.
As part of the first cache of papers, the international KiDS team of researchers, led by Koen Kuijken at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands [3], has used this approach to analyse images of over two million galaxies, typically 5.5 billion light - years away [4].
Made by observing simultaneously from four countries, including Sweden, the image shows the glowing centre of the galaxy Messier 82 — and many bright remnants of supernova explosions.
The starburst galaxy NGC 1313, as imaged by the Gemini South 8 - meter telescope in Chile using narrow - band filters in the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph.
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This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different - looking spiral galaxies NGC 4302 (left) and NGC 4298 (right) was imaged by 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).
The galaxies are moving toward each other, and being accelerated by their mutual gravity (Image: NASA / STScI)
Image of a galaxy (center) with incoming cold gas flow, produced by rendering the gas distribution in a supercomputer simulation of a forming galaxy.
Pictured above is a zoomed - in image of the Little Cub galaxy, a star - forming dwarf galaxy that is being stripped of gas by its gigantic neighboring galaxy.
This Hubble image of a crowded star field in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy shows that stars of different ages can be distinguished from one another on the basis of temperature (as indicated by color) and brightness.
Located 60 million light - years away, this lenticular galaxy was imaged in greater detail than ever before by the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope.
This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different - looking spiral galaxies NGC 4302 (left) and NGC 4298 (right) was imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Credit: NASA / ESA / M.