The mergers can teach us about how stars are born.
This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys , both installed on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256.of galaxies smashing into one another. The vistas were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the recent HiPEEC survey, a project that aims to study how fast stars can form in systems like these.
Mergers like the ones depicted aren’t very common, and they’re quite valuable for learning more about how stars are born. “These systems are excellent laboratories to trace the formation of star clusters under extreme physical conditions,” ESA said in aWhen these rare collisions happen, shockingly dense and bright patches of stars crop up—you can see those bright spots in this collection of images, almost as if they’re glimmering badges of honor born from violent mergers.
By observing these clusters with ultraviolet and near-infrared cameras, Hubble scientists can discern their ages and masses, which helps them understand how quickly or slowly stars form there. It’s just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding how star systems are born as a whole. You can check out all of the collisions below, and older images of colliding galaxies captured by HubbleLocated 200 million light-years from earth, the galaxy system NGC 1614 has an extra bright center. It can be found in the constellation of Eridanus, known as the River.This galaxy is known as the Medusa merger—or the less exciting name, NGC 4194. It formed when a young galaxy consumed a smaller gas-rich system and threw out streams of stars and dust into space.
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