Pretty space picture: Twin Telescopes, Twin Galaxies - June 26, 2008
It’s been far too long since the Great Beyond had a pretty space picture. Today’s is newly released by the Gemini Observatory and shows conjoined spiral galaxies 90 million light years away and 60,000 light years apart.
NGC 5427 (left) and NGC 5426 (right) are linked by an “intergalactic bridge” which the observatory says acts as a feeding tube so they can share gas and dust. They’re already too close for comfort and the observatory’s press release says “the mutual pull of gravity has already begun to alter and distort their visible features”.
Comments
The "conjoined galaxies" here attest to the fact that galaxies are born by fragmentation. The linking "intergalactic bridge," or umbilical cord, is but proof of this viable cosmic process; for details, please see: www.sittampalam.net/TheGalaxy.htm
Posted by: Eugene Sittampalam | July 1, 2008 07:59 PM
It is easy for two galaxies at indistinguishable distances along the same sight-line to be millions of light-years apart. Maybe there are subtle signs that they're not, signs of interaction, but they're too subtle for me.
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Posted by: Vidyardhi Nanduri | July 13, 2008 04:22 PM
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