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Cosmology, galaxies, Gravitational Lensing, Hubble, Science, Star Formation, Stars, Stellar Evolution

Merging Giant Galaxies Sport ‘Blue Bling’ in New Hubble Pic

10 Jul , 2014 by Bob King

On a summer night, high above our heads, where the Northern Crown and Herdsman meet, a titanic new galaxy is being born 4.5 billion light years away. You and I can’t see it, but astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope released photographs today showing the merger of two enormous elliptical galaxies into a future  heavyweight […]

elliptical, galaxy, Hubble, merger, Milkomeda, SDSS J1531+3414, spiral

Cosmology, esa, galaxies

A Mega-Merger of Massive Galaxies Caught in the Act

22 May , 2013 by Jason Major

Even though the spacecraft has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant necessary to observe the infrared energy of the distant Universe, data collected by ESA’s Herschel space observatory are still helping unravel cosmic mysteries — such as how early elliptical galaxies grew so large so quickly, filling up with stars and then, rather suddenly, […]

elliptical, esa, galactic collision, galaxy, Herschel, infrared, merger, NASA, star formation, universe

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