Panning across merging galaxies and a string of star formation in SDSS J1531+3414
This video pans across a new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of 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:NASA, ESA/Hubble and Grant Tremblay (European Southern Observatory)
About the Video
| Id: | heic1414c |
| 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 |
