Astronomers say that such rings are rarely seen during galactic mergers.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a unique image of the merger of the two galaxies, which became a large bright ring of stars. The galaxies are collectively named Arp-Madore 417-39. They are at a distance of 670 million light years from us. The image was released by the European Space Agency.
Hubble took the image with its ACS camera, which is designed to observe very distant galaxies.
Scientists say that these two galaxies are bent by strong gravity and this leads to the fact that the stars of these galaxies rotate in a giant ring, and the nuclei of the galaxies are at a relatively close distance each other.
Astronomers say that such rings can be seen very rarely during galaxy mergers, as they only appear during a head-on collision of two galaxies. Whereas most of these mergers are slow, and the force of gravity pulls galaxies apart over time.
“Such ring structures are not eternal. According to scientists, these rings exist for about 100 million years, after which the structure is destroyed, the stars return to their galaxies , and in the end, after 1-2 billion years, a new large galaxy appears in the galaxy,” – said the experts.
Remember that the Hubble Space Telescope took a stunning picture of a strangely shaped dwarf galaxy. A celestial body called NGC 1156 is located 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries.
The Hubble Telescope took a picture of a star cluster near the Milky Way
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