#Colliding Galaxies

[scottguy]

A cosmic heart shape caused by colliding galaxies.

[chibinotan]

Active Collision

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE CRUSHES ALL -- WHEN TWO GALAXIES COLLIDE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a Hubble image of NGC 7714, a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth.⁣ 🔭+📸: ESA (European Space Agency) & NASA⁣.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth — a relatively close neighbour in cosmic terms.

The galaxy has witnessed some violent and dramatic events in its recent past. Tell-tale signs of this brutality can be seen in NGC 7714's strangely shaped arms, and in the smoky golden haze that stretches out from the galactic centre — caused by an ongoing merger with its smaller galactic companion NGC 7715..."

-- ESA HUBBLE, "Hubble image of NGC 7714," first published in 2015

Acknowledgement: A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Sources: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1503a, Picuki, & X (formerly Twitter).

[yesireadbooks]

Colliding Galaxies

Colliding galaxies, but only I scattered

You left me a wound and took all that mattered

We held hands for a moment, and only a moment

And that warmth was all I craved

But even then, I'm thankful you let go,

Even the slightest warmth can burn.

I look around, my stars scattered

Leaving a trail between you and me

You are part of me, and I am yours

But please take your stars back

Their warmth burns into my wounds

And all I need is a tug from your pull

[timbercow]

Colliding galaxies through the rings of another galaxy.

[shadelostwolf]

Galaxy art Part 1 6/12

I struggled with a few of these and had fun with the others.

You can find these for sale on my deviant art, art station as prints, and on red bubble. You can also get these backgrounds as a free download in my Art Club tier on Patreon.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 7714, When Two Galaxies Collide

[cosmicfocus]

Messier 3

Globular Cluster in Canes Venatici. #astronomy #globular_cluster

Globular Cluster NGC 5272 in Canes Venatici Image exposure:8 MinutesImage Size: 77.5 x 51.7 arc-minImage date:2023-04-14 One of my long term astronomy goals is to image every object listed in the famous Messier Catalogue of 110 objects. Well perhaps not all, because ten of them are so far North they never rise above the horizon here. That leaves a hundred targets and this rather brief shot of…

[alrightbuckaroo]

my hand was made to hold your hand

[c-g-draws]

happy belated star wars day here’s a shit post

[gunsatthaphan]

ray is prolly just using sand to move on from mew but ykw i'll take what i can and just pray for him actually loving sand someday

"someday"????? excuse you. if you don't think that man is already head over heels for guitar boy then you're mistaken lmao.

I'm not really buying the whole Mew thing tbh, not because of their acting but because I feel like Ray is hanging on to something that he doesn't know he already put behind him. I think his loneliness is telling him lies, not in the past but in the present. he found something new in San, he just doesn't dare to go all in. yet.

xxx

[euesworld]

"Lay your head on my chest and listen to the sound of the universe.. it's beats a tune of life, a pitter pattering of soft sounds that will make you feel alive. The sound of galaxies colliding in my chest, the birth of stars or some such stuff.. but more than that it sings a hymn of love. My love for you, like a thousand moons speaking in languages of love untold.. I love you a thousand fold."

I love you with every heartbeat - eUë

[lyraofthestarsss]

Life series!Desert duo but they’re the Milky Way-Andromeda galaxy collision

[heatherlala]

NGC 4038 and NGC 4039

They call them “the antenna” but I’m a 💞swirly girly and it’s obv a heart 💖

“Two galaxies colliding has triggered furious episodes of star formation near the center of the cosmic wreckage. Spanning over 500 thousand light-years, this ^^ view reveals new star clusters and matter flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational tidal forces”

[blueiscoool]

When Worlds Collide

Webb Telescope Image Shows Galaxies Colliding and A Brilliant Star Formation

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope depicts IC 1623, an entwined pair of interacting galaxies which lies around 270 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cetus. The two galaxies in IC 1623 are plunging headlong into one another in a process known as a galaxy merger. Their collision has ignited a frenzied spate of star formation known as a starburst, creating new stars at a rate more than twenty times that of the Milky Way galaxy.

This interacting galaxy system is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths, making it a perfect proving ground for Webb’s ability to study luminous galaxies. A team of astronomers captured IC 1623 across the infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum using a trio of Webb’s cutting-edge scientific instruments: MIRI, NIRSpec, and NIRCam. In so doing, they provided an abundance of data that will allow the astronomical community at large to fully explore how Webb’s unprecedented capabilities will help to unravel the complex interactions in galactic ecosystems. These observations are also accompanied by data from other observatories, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and will help set the stage for future observations of galactic systems with Webb.

The merger of these two galaxies has long been of interest to astronomers, and has previously been imaged by Hubble and by other space telescopes. The ongoing, extreme starburst causes intense infrared emission, and the merging galaxies may well be in the process of forming a supermassive black hole. A thick band of dust has blocked these valuable insights from the view of telescopes like Hubble. However, Webb’s infrared sensitivity and its impressive resolution at those wavelengths allows it to see past the dust and has resulted in the spectacular image above, a combination of MIRI and NIRCam imagery.

The luminous core of the galaxy merger turns out to be both very bright and highly compact, so much so that Webb’s diffraction spikes appear atop the galaxy in this image. The 8-pronged, snowflake-like diffraction spikes are created by the interaction of starlight with the physical structure of the telescope. The spiky quality of Webb’s observations is particularly noticeable in images containing bright stars, such as Webb’s first deep field image.

[prettyinpunk]

sometimes muse makes pop songs and people get mad about it but they’re like the best pop songs. that you can make. how can you be mad at that.