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Full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/galaxy-triplet-ngc-6769-71/ This is another image from telescope live, of an interacting galaxy triplet plus some friends in the background. It was a really tough dataset to process – the data was badly undersampled and slighly out of focus. Very careful work with GHS and MMT helped a lot with this image, and I’m pretty happy with the amount of detail I got out considering the lack of data. Galaxy Triplet NGC 6769-71 is a gravitational interacting triplet of galaxies, located about 190 million light years away in the southern constellation of Pavo (the Peacock). Most galaxies are members of clusters of galaxies. In these, they move around among each other in a mostly slow and graceful ballet. But every now and then, two or more of the members may get too close for comfort – the movements become hectic, sometimes indeed dramatic, as when galaxies end up colliding. This image shows an example of such a cosmic tango. As dramatic and destructive as this may seem, such an interaction event is also an enrichment, a true baby-star boom. A cosmic catastrophe like this one normally results in the formation of many new stars. This is obvious from the blueish nature of the spiral arms in NGC 6769 (upper right) and NGC 6770 (upper left) and the presence of many sites of star forming regions. Website: theastroenthusiast.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_astronomy_enthusiast/ |
| Date | Taken on 27 April 2023, 05:42 |
| Source | Galaxy Triplet NGC 6769-71 |
| Author | William Ostling |
| Flickr tags | astronomy, astrophotography, space, night, sky, telescope, apod, gas, h-alpha, dust, stars, live, telescopelive, image, color, bright, ngc, detail, nebula, rgb, broadband, galaxy, spiral, galaxies |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by William Ostling at https://flickr.com/photos/192935202@N08/52850936230. It was reviewed on 5 May 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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