The Hubble telescope captures an image of four dwarf galaxies merging into one.. Details

Hubble image shows four dwarf galaxies merging into one, turning the page of the agenda

There is another cigar-shaped galaxy close to the right, and a fourth galaxy in the lower left with the other three by a stream of young stars.

The 40 galaxies make up the Hickson Compact Group 31, or HCG 31, the group 166 million light-years from Earth, relatively close to seeing interacting dwarf galaxies.

The galaxies are close to each other within 75,000 years of each other, making all four galaxies fit into the Milky Way.

The original version of the image was in 2010, and it comes with its processing to highlight the star-forming regions of the cluster. The gravitational forces interact from the mass of galaxies, this part of star formation that glows blue when they are young.

Galactic mergers began in very distant places, which means they are very old, but this group is relatively small and astronomers were able to use Hubble data to retrieve their locations and see when galaxies began interacting, a few hundred million years ago, and predict when they would merge in the end.

The study’s lead author, Sarah Gallagher, said in a statement when the image was published: “A clear example of a group of galaxies on their way to merging with so much gas that it’s going to mix everything up.

And relatively small galaxies, and can appear in size in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a subsidiary galaxy of the Milky Way, their velocities measured from previous studies appeared, and that they are so far moving to each other, 134,000 miles per hour (60 kilometers per second), average It is hard to imagine how this system will not end one elliptical galaxy in another billion years.