Multiple galaxy collisions
Astronomers have interpreted the oddly shaped objects in these NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots as strong visual evidence for multiple galaxies crashing into each other. These smashups create a tangled clump of matter and trigger a burst of new stars.
Credit:NASA/ESA, Kirk Borne (Raytheon and NASA/ESA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.), Luis Colina (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain), and Howard Bushouse and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.)
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting |
| Category: | Galaxies |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |