JAKARTA – The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the latest photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope managed to capture the image of two galaxies on the verge of colliding and becoming one.
The portrait of this galaxy is known as Arp 122, a combination of the galaxies NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642. Before merging, NGC 6040 had the shape of a tilted, curved spiral, while LEDA 59642 had the shape of a round spiral facing upwards. ‘each other.
ESA says that the meeting between these two galaxies occurs at a safe distance, or about 570 million light years from Earth. The merger of these two galaxies also occurs very slowly and will take another four billion years.
“The process of collision and fusion will not happen in a short time, it will take hundreds of millions of years for it to happen. “This collision lasted a long time because the distance traveled was very long,” ESA said in an official statement.
Meanwhile, ESA cannot yet confirm the cause of this collision process. Most likely, the components that make up the galaxy experience changes in the ongoing gravitational force. Therefore, galaxies move and collide with each other until their structure is disrupted.
Each galaxy has a different structure, but this structure will come together due to this merger. Astronomers have not yet guessed the final structure of Arp 122, but it will probably be regular or elliptical.
“The resulting galaxy is thought to have a regular or elliptical structure because the merger process disrupts a more complex structure. “It will be very interesting to know what Arp 122 will look like once the collision is over,” ESA concluded.
Label: a solar system in the outer space of the galaxy
2024-01-08 19:05:00
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