Apr 21, 2022
Celebrating Hubble’s 32nd Birthday: A Magnificent View of an Unusual Collection of Five Galaxies
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: evolution, space
This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Somehow, these different galaxies crossed paths in their evolution to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler.
Caught in a leisurely gravitational dance, the whole group is so crowded that it could fit within a region of space that is less than twice the diameter of our Milky Way.