The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble

NASA ^ | 10 May, 2020 | NASA/Hubble

[MtnClimber]

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) photo for today.

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took a dive. Dubbed the Porpoise Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. A burst of young blue stars forms the nose of the porpoise toward the right of the upper galaxy, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like a penguin protecting an egg. Either way, intricate dark dust lanes and bright blue star streams trail the troubled galaxy to the lower right. The featured re-processed image showing Arp 142 in unprecedented detail was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope last year.

[MtnClimber]

Only about 300 million light years away.

[allendale]

Hard to believe billions of galaxies all originating from one big bang. Even harder to believe that biological and physical entities from millions of light years away actually visit earth. You either believe Einstein or you believe in UFOs. You can’t believe both.

[Ann Archy]

I can SEE the dolphin....COOL!

[BipolarBob]

300 million light years away.

So, it'd take a couple of decades to get there in a spaceship I guess.

/s

[BipolarBob]

You either believe Einstein or you believe in UFOs. You can’t believe both.

Are you nuts? Einstein was one of them.

[LastDayz]

Warp Factor 9..... be there in no time.

[BenLurkin]

Oh. The Huge Manatee.

[ClearCase_guy]

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[null and void]

<img src=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2005/PorpoiseGalaxy_HubbleFraile_960.jpg width=700>

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[MtnClimber]

Oh. The Huge Manatee.

I think the manatee got hit by a boat.

[Sirius Lee]

Very cool. Although I see a perched hummingbird.

[MtnClimber]

An African Hummingbird or a European Hummingbird?

[digger48]

Someone posted a video here a few months ago that really changed my mind on the likelihood of “visitors”

It explained in detail, with imaging, just how vast our “known” universe is, and that.,without some sort of
“Stargate”, the distance is simply unsurmountable

If anyone remembers that and can post it again, I’d really appreciate it

[freefdny]

ER=EPR
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/new-einstein-equation-wormholes-quantum-gravity
How else are we going to get “ klaatu barada nikto”.

[SkyDancer]

Looks more like a woman on her fainting couch.

[PTBAA]

I see a bull (look left to right).

[SunkenCiv]

I think there's a song about this on the classic David Bowie album, "Cetacean to Cetacean".

[SunkenCiv]

Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142...

Ooh!

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