Posted on Dec 3, 2020
APOD: 2020 December 3 - The Antennae Galaxies in Collision
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "The Antennae Galaxies in Collision." When we usually think of a collision, we think of an event that is over in a matter of seconds (followed by wreckage, insurance claims, and potential hospital stays). Not so with galactic collisions...these events take millions of years to play out, forming new stars and new worlds in the process. This Hubble image spans some 50,000 light years and is unfolding 60 million light years away from planet Earth. The two galaxies are NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, and are found in the southern constellation Corvus. I'll post a second image of the Antennae Galaxies in a separate comment, and you'll see why they are called that.
APOD: 2020 December 3 - The Antennae Galaxies in Collision
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "The Antennae Galaxies in Collision."
Image: The Antennae Galaxies in Collision - Image Credit - ESA-Hubble NASA
Yet another wonderful image of a section of the heavens. Kudos to the photographers and editors.
APOD Background
"Explanation: Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years to play out. Cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, the galaxies' individual stars don't often collide though. Their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the wreckage. New star clusters and interstellar matter are jumbled and flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational forces. This Hubble close-up frame is about 50,000 light-years across at the estimated distance of the colliding galaxies. In wider-field views their suggestive visual appearance, with extended structures arcing for hundreds of thousands of light-years, gives the galaxy pair its popular name, The Antennae Galaxies."
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Image: The Antennae Galaxies in Collision - Image Credit - ESA-Hubble NASA
Yet another wonderful image of a section of the heavens. Kudos to the photographers and editors.
APOD Background
"Explanation: Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years to play out. Cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, the galaxies' individual stars don't often collide though. Their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the wreckage. New star clusters and interstellar matter are jumbled and flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational forces. This Hubble close-up frame is about 50,000 light-years across at the estimated distance of the colliding galaxies. In wider-field views their suggestive visual appearance, with extended structures arcing for hundreds of thousands of light-years, gives the galaxy pair its popular name, The Antennae Galaxies."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476YUWoFiDk
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