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Posted on 09/04/2026 12:31:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the high flying constellation Pegasus their spectacular, galactic scale merger is captured in sharp detail in the image from the 8.1 meter Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, Hawai‘i. The galaxy pair, known as NGC 7253 and Arp 278, was chosen as a target, researched, and given a Hawaiian name by high school students in the joint Gemini Observatory and University of Hawaiʻi Project Hōkūlani internship program. The name translates to "The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life". That's both culturally and astronomically appropriate for galaxy collisions that trigger a cosmic maelstrom of star formation from galactic reservoirs of elemental building blocks of life. These merging galaxies are found within a region of Pegasus identified as the Hawaiian navigational constellation Ka Lupe o Kawelo.
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There seems to be an arch of galaxies accross the top right hand corner of the picture.
Would that be gravitational lensing or just a galactic chicken dance.
So what will you do if paid?
Depends, is your last name Musk?
Except for the close stars with diffraction spikes (I think there were two), every bright object is a galaxy. They are either spiral, elliptical or globular clusters, though I doubt you could see globular clusters at this distance.
Or Dis-Kamala-bulated. Heh. :-)
Ha!
Dude! Seriously! It looks like Clippy on a pink acid trip imagining himself as a Baboon shaped from an interstellar cloud of hemp smoke!
(I have no idea how this thought came into my head, but I do want to thank you for posting these NASA pictures!)
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