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Plethora of interacting galaxies on Hubble's birthday
SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE NEWS RELEASE
Posted: April 24, 2008
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and
majestic island worlds of glittering stars.
But galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close encounters
that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing "maternity wards"
of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new
shapes.
Today, in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th launch
anniversary, 59 views of colliding galaxies constitute the largest
collection of Hubble images ever released to the public. This new
Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy collisions produce a
remarkable variety of intricate structures in never-before-seen
detail.
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble
Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/
NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Astronomers observe only one out of a million galaxies in the nearby
universe in the act of colliding. However, galaxy mergers were much
more common long ago when they were closer together, because the
expanding universe was smaller. Astronomers study how gravity
choreographs their motions in the game of celestial bumper cars and
try to observe them in action.
For all their violence, galactic smash-ups take place at a glacial
rate by human standards - timescales on the order of several hundred
million years. The images in the Hubble atlas capture snapshots of the
various merging galaxies at various stages in their collision.
Most of the 59 new Hubble images are part of a large investigation of
luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies called the GOALS project
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The images are available here.
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birthday</B></FONT><BR>
<FONT FACE=3D"VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF"
SIZE=3D"-2"><B>SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE NEWS RELEASE</
B><BR>Posted: April 24, 2008</FONT><BR>
<P>Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary,
and majestic island worlds of glittering stars.
<P>But galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close
encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing
"maternity wards" of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph
into wondrous new shapes.
<P>Today, in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th launch
anniversary, 59 views of colliding galaxies constitute the largest
collection of Hubble images ever released to the public. This new
Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy collisions produce a
remarkable variety of intricate structures in never-before-seen
detail.
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Astronomers observe only one out of a million galaxies in the nearby
universe in the act of colliding. However, galaxy mergers were much
more common long ago
when they were closer together, because the expanding universe was
smaller.
Astronomers study how gravity choreographs their motions in the game
of
celestial bumper cars and try to observe them in action.
<P>For all their violence, galactic smash-ups take place at a glacial
rate by human
standards - timescales on the order of several hundred million years.
The images
in the Hubble atlas capture snapshots of the various merging galaxies
at various
stages in their collision.
<P>Most of the 59 new Hubble images are part of a large investigation
of luminous
and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies called the GOALS project (Great
Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey). This survey combines observations
from Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory,
and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The majority of the Hubble
observations
are led by Aaron S. Evans of University of Virginia, Charlottesville/
NRAO/Stony
Brook University.
<P>The images are available <a href=3D"http://hubblesite.org/news/
2008/16" target=3D"_blank">here</a>.
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