Zooming in on merging galaxies and a string of star formation in SDSS J1531+3414
This video shows a zoom into two galaxies from the cluster SDSS J1531+3414. The two galaxies have been found to be merging into one and a "chain" of young stellar superclusters are seen winding around the galaxies’ nuclei. The galaxies are surrounded by an egg-shaped blue ring caused by the immense gravity of the cluster bending light from other galaxies beyond it.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) and Grant Tremblay (European Southern Observatory)
About the Video
Id: | heic1414b |
Release date: | 10 July 2014, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic1414 |
Duration: | 50 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | [HGO2008]SDSS J1531+3414 |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Elliptical Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting |
Category: | Galaxies |