Hubble telescope spots a 'Space Triangle' galaxy crash spawning new stars
"The two galaxies in this system collided head-on, fueling the triangular-shaped burst of star formation," Hubble officials."The pair contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445 at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444 at left."
"Part of the reason for that shape is that these galaxies are still so close to each other, and NGC 2444 is still holding on to the other galaxy gravitationally," participating astronomer Julianne Dalcanton, of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York and the University of Washington in Seattle, said in the Hubble statement.A Hubble Space Telescope image of colliding images, collectively known as Arp 143.
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