Cartwheel Galaxy Group

by Nasa/cxc/stsci/science Photo Library

Title

Cartwheel Galaxy Group

Artist

Nasa/cxc/stsci/science Photo Library

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Composite image of the Cartwheel galaxy group. This image is composed from images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in optical wavelengths and the Chandra space telescope in X-ray wavelengths (purple). The Cartwheel galaxy (right) has a complicated structure thought to be due to a collision with a smaller galaxy that passed through the middle of the Cartwheel galaxy. X-rays from Chandra telescope show disturbed hot gas initially hosted by the Cartwheel galaxy being dragged over more than 150, 000 light years by the collision. The Cartwheel galaxy (also known as PGC 2248 or ESO 350-40) is located about 500 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sculptor.

Uploaded

May 11th, 2022

Statistics

Viewed 189 Times  -  Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/16/2024 at 10:15 AM

Colors

Embed

Share

Sales Sheet

Tags