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A new view of the Antenna Galaxy
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:58
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The "Antenna galaxy" is actually two colliding galaxies. As in all galaxycollisions, interstellar dust and gas are stirred up, creating a burst of new star-formations. This is illustrated in this image taken by 3 space-telscopes. The image is taken by Hubble, showing it's main-series stars and brigth nebulae, while the Chandra X-ray images show a blue cloud of warm ionized gasses surrounding the galaxies, and the infrared Spitzer images shows the colder (brown) dust cloud, Warner dust clouds shows up in both the Hubble and Spiitzer images are the bright red nebula in the center
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