What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a - TopicsExpress



          

What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a bird by the gravitational tug of the companion NGC 2937. The object was first cataloged as a "peculiar galaxy" by Halton Arp in the 1960s. This interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 142 Hubble Space Telescope
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:34:13 +0000

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