Antennae Galaxies - Wikipedia
Located in the NGC 4038 group with five other galaxies, these two galaxies are known as the Antennae Galaxies because the two long tails of stars, gas and dust ejected from the galaxies as a result of the collision resemble an insect's antennae.
Antennae Galaxies: NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 - Constellation Guide
2023年5月30日 · The Antennae Galaxies, also known as the Ringtail Galaxy, are a pair of colliding galaxies located in the constellation Corvus. The collision has produced two long tails of stars that resemble an insect’s antennae.
Antennae Galaxies - NASA
2008年5月19日 · The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like “arms” extending far out from the nuclei of the two galaxies, best seen by ground-based telescopes. These “tidal tails” were formed during the initial encounter …
Antennae Galaxies - Science@NASA
2008年5月19日 · The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like "arms" extending far out from the nuclei of the two galaxies, best seen by ground-based telescopes. These "tidal tails" were formed during the initial encounter …
Caldwell 60/61 - Science@NASA
Better known as the Antennae galaxies, Caldwell 60 and 61 are a pair of interacting spiral galaxies. This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of …
Antennae Galaxies - HubbleSite
2006年10月15日 · Because many (if not all) present-day, large galaxies are thought to have grown from smaller galaxies that collided and merged, studying nearby collisions such as the Antennae Galaxies helps astronomers understand how …
Antennae Galaxies - Astronomy Magazine
2024年1月1日 · NGC 4038/9, known as the Antennae or Ringtail galaxies, are a well-known pair of colliding galaxies in Corvus. Halton Arp designated them No. 244 in his famous 1966 Catalogue of Peculiar...
The Antennae Galaxies/NGC 4038-4039 - HubbleSite
2006年10月16日 · This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of …
Interacting Galaxies: The Antennae - ViewSpace
The Antennae galaxies provide a stunning multi-wavelength view of galaxy interaction and all the resulting phases of the stellar lifecycle. Interacting galaxies typically swing by each other multiple times, each time compressing gas to form new stars.
Antennae Galaxies reloaded - ESA/Hubble
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of these stunning galaxies twice before, once using observations from its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1997, and again in 2006 from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).