His strength is still in his waist: Hubble photographed a beautiful galactic "snail" in space
Not only Webb: the old Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a beautiful image of two distant galaxies that appear to be colliding with each other, but they are not
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09/19/2022
Monday, September 19, 2022, 1:46 p.m. Updated: 1:58 p.m.
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Although the young Webb Space Telescope is grabbing all the attention, its older brother, the Hubble Space Telescope, which has already been serving humanity for 32 years in space, is not doing its job.
Hubble captured a beautiful image of two Snail Galaxies, which nicely illustrates why distances in space matter.
The image, of two galaxies hovering at a distance of a billion light years from us, shows as if the two, SDSSJ115331 and LEDA 2073461 are crashing into each other, but in reality, there is no interaction between them.
In fact, they are at a significant distance from each other, and were simply in the same line of sight of the telescope.
Galaxies do collide in space quite often, but not this time.
Apart from gravitational indications such as merging black holes at the center of galaxies, the beautiful shape of the two galaxies, two almost perfect golden spirals indicates that there is no collision - a real collision would also break the beautiful shape of the two galaxies.
Although there is nothing to learn from the image in terms of a galaxy collision, the image taken by Hubble will help us better understand the structure of spiral galaxies, and also, it is simply a pleasure to the beholder's eye and reminds us of the beauty of space, and the capabilities of the elderly space telescope that is still active.
For those who want, you can download a desktop wallpaper version from Hubble's official website.
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