The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI.morningcoffee1 t1_j9b2w8v wrote
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actually... its a dance of life :-)
If you look at the above image you see a blue hue, and even some bright blue areas: that is all star formation of new hot blue (O& B) type stars... billions of them. And that all occurs because of the collision.
Rath_MC t1_j9b8z4g wrote
yess that's a unique way of seeing that.
Man I love how our universe works the cycle of star formation inside the nebulas. It's so wonderful and mind boggling.
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