A stunning new photo from NOIRLabAstro shows two colliding galaxies.
As the Webb Space Telescope continues to dominate the news cycle with its record-setting imagery, other telescopes around the world continue to take exemplary photos. Case in point, the National Science Foundations' NOIRLab released a new image it captured Tuesday showing two galaxies in the process of colliding.
Located some 60 million light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation, the picture from NOIRLab's International Gemini Observatory shows two spiral galaxies merging. In the snapshot, galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 can be seen becoming one. Though merging, scientists say the centers of each galaxy are still around 20,000 light-years apart, the same distance from Earth to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
More surprising, however, is that NOIRLabs says this photo best represents what will begin happening to the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in roughly five billion years. "By combining decades of observations and computer modeling, astronomers now have compelling evidence that merging spiral galaxies like these go on to become elliptical galaxies," the outfit adds."It is likely that NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 will eventually resemble their more-mature neighbor Messier 89, an elliptical galaxy that also resides in the Virgo Cluster.
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