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Summary
Description Hickson Compact Group 31.jpg |
English:
In this composite image of the
galaxy
grouping, the bright, distorted object at middle, left, is actually two colliding
dwarf galaxies
. Myriad star clusters have formed in the streamers of debris pulled from the galaxies and at the site of their head-on collision. The
cigar
-shaped object above the galaxy duo is another member of the group. A bridge of
star clusters
connects the trio. A long rope of bright star clusters points to the fourth member of the group, at lower right. The bright object in the centre is a foreground
star
. The image was composed from observations made by the
Hubble Space Telescope's
Advanced Camera for Surveys,
NASA's
Spitzer Space Telescope
, and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (
GALEX
).
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Date | |
Source | Hubblesite |
Author | NASA, ESA, S. Gallagher (The University of Western Ontario), and J. English (University of Manitoba) |
The principal investigator was Kelsey Johnson of the University of Virginia and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, both in Charlottesville.
Licensing
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NASA
and
ESA
. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material.
This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org . For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |