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Aftermath Of Enormous Galactic Pile-up Aftermath Of Enormous Galactic Pile-up
Sunday, January 24, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is most likely to be a cosmic fossil - the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. NGC 1132, together with the small dwarf galaxies surrounding it, are dubbed a "fossil group" as they are most likely the remains of a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past. (Source: Best of Science)
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Comments & Replies (2)
Orbiting stars   (01/26/10 - 17:13 - by Sergey)
I still in a big doubt how astronomers calculate or make a conclusion
about stars what are orbiting around Galaxy gravitation center? These
stars are just a dots captured by Hubble they could be just some
remote stars which are much father than they appear. And thus could
not be placed in the imaginary by our mind picture of structure some
galaxies and interactions to each other. It's so up to big suggestion
isn't it?
i love pie   (03/08/10 - 20:47 - by yo mama)
pie is like heaven in a grandmother's kitchen.unless you dont have a
grandmother, then its your kitchen

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