Sheets of debris from an exploded star swirl in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image. At a distance of about 180,000 light years, the LMC galaxy is a relatively close neighbour of the Milky Way. It can be spotted from the Earth's Southern Hemisphere without a telescope. Apparently. Nick?
This false-colour view of the Cartwheel galaxy was created by combining images captured by four space telescopes: Galaxy Evolution Explorer, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers think a smaller galaxy, possibly one of two galaxies seen here (bottom left), passed through the center of the Cartwheel galaxy about 100 million years ago. Bet that was a messy one.....
A Hubble Space Telescope image shows unprecedented detail of the Antennae galaxies, an intense star-forming region created when two galaxies began to collide some 200 million to 300 million years ago. The bright, blue-white areas show newly formed stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen, which are colored pink. A similar collision is expected between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearby Andromeda galaxy in several billion years....see previous posts for how much I'd like to see that!
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I've looked and I can't see it. Perhaps if I put my glasses on...or indeed have something to smoke...lol
A challenge! I like! lol
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