NASA showed the merging of two galaxies

Techno 16 December, 2017

2017-12-16 12:02

NASA showed the merging of two galaxies
Galaxy located at a distance of about 350 million light-years from Earth.

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Orbital Observatory of NASA has shown how the process of merging two galaxies, reports Rus.Media.

Space object shown on the image is called NGC 5256 and is a pair of galaxies that are in the final stages of a merger. These galaxies were observed with the Hubble space telescope.

Two galactic nuclei separated by about 13 thousand light years. Galaxy located at a distance of about 350 million light-years from Earth.

This image is collected from the new data. They show that the dust and gas orbiting galaxies that collided, became more pronounced.