Why Does Webb’s Galaxy Pair Look Like a Penguin and an Egg?
Two galaxies appear frozen in a strange cosmic pose: one resembles a penguin and the other an egg. They're interacting gravitationally, and that encounter is pulling gas and dust into dramatic structures around them.
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reddit.comPOKEBALL GALAXY? 🌌Nope, that's galaxy NGC 1015, a barred spiral galaxy located 118 million light-years away from Earth.
This galaxy is one of 19 special galaxies analyzed by the Hubble Space Telescope to help astronomers measure the universe's rate of expansion with unprecedented precision — known as the Hubble constant.
-Hubble Space Telescope
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reddit.comMapping the History of Star Formation in Andromeda
Astronomers divided this Hubble image of the Andromeda Galaxy into thousands of sections, each about 300 light-years across, to reconstruct where and when stars formed throughout the galaxy.
This image highlights two of those regions. Region 1 contains more young, massive blue stars, revealing recent bursts of star formation. Region 2 is dominated by older, redder stars, suggesting that little star formation has happened there recently.
In other words, the colors of the stars act like a timeline of Andromeda’s past.