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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Recycling NGC 5291
NASA ^ | November 21, 2015 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 11/21/2015 10:45:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Explanation: Following an ancient galaxy-galaxy collision 200 million light-years from Earth, debris from a gas-rich galaxy, NGC 5291, was flung far into intergalactic space. NGC 5291 and the likely interloper, also known as the "Seashell" galaxy, are captured near the center of this spectacular scene. The sharp, ground-based telescopic image looks toward the galaxy cluster Abell 3574 in the southern constellation Centaurus. Stretched along the 100,000 light-year long tidal tails, are clumps resembling dwarf galaxies, but lacking old stars, apparently dominated by young stars and active star forming regions. Found to be unusually rich in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the dwarf galaxies were likely born in intergalactic space, recycling the enriched debris from NGC 5291 itself.

November 21, 2015

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; centaurus; clusterabell3574; ngc5291; science; seashellgalaxy
[Credit and Copyright: CHART32 Team; Processing: Johannes Schedler]

1 posted on 11/21/2015 10:45:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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The Big One

2 posted on 11/21/2015 10:46:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Here are some zoom-ins...

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3 posted on 11/21/2015 10:56:56 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

Whooooo Pretty!

And, it’s near M83. Unfortunately, just too dim for my 10 inch


4 posted on 11/21/2015 1:31:32 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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