The Dwarf Galaxy UGC 9128 contains roughly One Hundred Million stars, and is about 8 million light years away.
This image shows two galaxies falling into each other. The black hole in the lower galaxy is emitting a jet of relativistic particles, shredding the other galaxy by triggering massive star formation, gravitational collapse, and vaporizing billions of solar systems.
(Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2011/04/30
The unusual arms of spiral galaxy M103 become visible in infrared (red), radio (purple) and x-ray (blue) wavelengths.
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