Oct 30, 2019

👾 ~ Happy Halloween from space: Collision of 2 galaxies looks like a ghost face staring at us (SS) ~ |

Hubble has captured the collision of two galaxies of equal size that appears to resemble a ghostly face. Credit: @NASA/@ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington) via NASA
The ‘head’ is a result of the gravitational shock wave that pushes material outwards from the two merging galaxies while the bright ‘eyes’ are the centers of the galaxies themselves.


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