Multiple Galaxy Collisions
Astronomers have interpreted the oddly shaped objects in these NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots as strong visual evidence for multiple galaxies crashing into each other. These smashups create a tangled clump of matter and trigger a burst of new stars.
Credit:
NASA/ESA, Kirk Borne (Raytheon and NASA/ESA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.), Luis Colina (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain), and Howard Bushouse and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.)
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9945a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 22 November 1999, 07:00 |
| Size: | 795 x 796 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting • Galaxies Images/Videos |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
