Hubble Space Telescope recently released a group of 59 images of galaxies colliding for its 18th anniversary. The images are pretty cool, but one struck me as rather sexual.
Hubba Hubba!
As described:
Arp 148 is the staggering aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed companion. The collision between the two parent galaxies produced a shockwave effect that first drew matter into the center and then caused it to propagate outwards in a ring. The elongated companion perpendicular to the ring suggests that Arp 148 is a unique snapshot of an ongoing collision. Infrared observations reveal a strong obscuration region that appears as a dark dust lane across the nucleus in optical light. Arp 148 is nicknamed Mayall s object and is located in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, approximately 500 million light-years away. This interacting pair of galaxies is included in Arp’s catalog of peculiar galaxies as number 148.
[Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University]
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As Freud said, sometimes a galaxy is just a galaxy.
/wait, no he didn’t; but almost.
I always heard space was a cold place, but that is pretty hot.
Ninety-five percent of the objects represented by white dots in this computer-generated illustration are human-made debris.
/keep yo’ space clean
very mature Thor!
Wow, Thor does have a dirty mind…and small hands.
Bow chicka bow bow