All-Encompassing Trip

An eclectic blog by Guillermo Esteves

Thursday 9 July 2009

This image captured by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory shows Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies located about 280 million light years from Earth, four of which are undergoing a massive galactic collision. NGC 7318b, the bright spiral galaxy near the center of the image, is passing through the core of galaxies at nearly 2 million miles per hour. (Photo credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum.)

This image captured by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory shows Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies located about 280 million light years from Earth, four of which are undergoing a massive galactic collision. NGC 7318b, the bright spiral galaxy near the center of the image, is passing through the core of galaxies at nearly 2 million miles per hour.

(Photo credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum.)

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