NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 - Galaxy Antenna This wonderful image owe Hubble Space Telescope. It is so far the most detailed photograph confluent pair of galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039th brightest and most dense regions contain a great cluster of stars. These galaxies their name from the long arms extending far beyond the nuclei of these galaxies, they are best seen from ground-based astronomical telescopes. These tails formed by the action of tidal forces at the beginning of the collision of galaxies about 200 or 300 million years ago. These galaxies give you an idea of what might happen if our galaxy collided with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years. The distance to the galaxy is estimated to be 65 million years of light. Source: nasa.gov
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:26:29 +0000
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