Hubble Reveals Baby Stars in a Galaxy Torn by Gravity
Hubble data show one spiral arm rich in stars and gas while a fly-by and ram pressure stripping shaped the galaxy’s 500-million-year-old asymmetry.
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Hubble Spots Spiral Galaxy Warped by Cosmic Forces
A stunning new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the lopsided intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 4654, whose unusual shape was sculpted by both a close encounter with another galaxy and a headlong plunge through the hot gas of the Virgo Cluster. The post Hubble Spots Spiral Galaxy Warped by Cosmic Forces appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
At the heart of the Virgin's cluster, the middle spiral galaxy NGC 4654 fights against titaniumic forces that distort its structure, while stimulating the birth of new stars.
The Hubble space telescope has photographed a spiral galaxy that looks split in half. Not by an explosion, but by a long history of cosmic tears. It is called NGC 4654, it lives in the Virgo cluster at 72 million light years away and its most disturbing feature is an asymmetry difficult to explain: one of its arms is brimming with young stars and bright gas; the other is almost depopulated, as if the galaxy had forgotten to build that side.
Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4654: A One-sided Spiral
Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4654: A One-sided Spiral | HubbleThe NASA/European Space Agency Hubble picture is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that appear on galactic scales in space. This is NGC 4654, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). “Intermediate” means that it lies between the spiral galaxies that have a bar across the center and those that do not with a weak bar structure in its center. It …
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