Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Amateur astronomers and NASA capture galaxy eating another galaxy

Amateur astronomers and NASA capture galaxy eating another galaxy


NASA has published this image showing the M51 spiral galaxy—located 30 million light years away from Earth—eating a tiny galaxy like a hamster would it a tiny burrito, which you can see on its upper left.* It was obtained using data from the Chandra X-Ray space observatory and optical data from amateur telescopes on the ground.


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