Archivo de imágenes de Hubble
Colisión de galaxias II – Consecuencias
This image is a still frame from a standard video presentation (i.e., for television instead of a planetarium dome) of the galaxy collision scientific visualization. After a head-on collision, the galaxies' shapes are strongly disrupted. The tidal forces of gravity have created l...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2002
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2002-09-1171-image
This image is a still frame from a standard video presentation (i.e., for television instead of a planetarium dome) of the galaxy collision scientific visualization. After a head-on collision, the galaxies' shapes are strongly disrupted. The tidal forces of gravity have created long plumes of material called 'tidal tails'. The central regions will relatively quickly fall back together and merge into a single remnant galaxy. Such a collision may occur for our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy in about five billion years.
Credits
Image
Frank Summers (STScI), Chris Mihos (CWRU), Lars Hernquist (Harvard)
Fuente
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