The Hubble Telescope recorded the spectacular collision of “giants” in the sky as two galaxies merge.
With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Telescope, astronomers captured a new image of a collision in the IC 1623 galactic system. This galaxy is in the final stages of its growth process and will then form new stars.
Galactic Collision was selected as Hubble Photo of the Week with the name: “Clash of the Titans”.
According to astronomers, “This new image brings together data from Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) combined with observations through eight filters covering infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths, revealing details of IC1623.”
The IC1623 galaxies are located very far from our Milky Way with a distance of about 275 million light years. Image IC1623 showed how the two galaxies are in the final stages of merging.
Astronauts will continue to observe the pair of galaxies to better understand the process of star formation in other galaxies such as IC 1623.
The spiral galaxy system IC1623, first discovered by American astrologer Lewis Swift in 1897, is located in the Cetus constellation near the celestial equator and is only partially observable at certain times of the year.
The constellation Cetus is the fourth largest constellation in the sky, named after a fish. The neighboring constellations of this constellation are Aries (Aries), Pisces (Pisces) and Aquarius (Aquarius).
