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	Hubble Watches Triple Galaxy Smash Up

JohnWaterman

3-3-2009 3:28 PM

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3-5-2009 2:49 PM

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Cool thing is that what we are watching happened 100 MILLION years ago.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/278dc10e-409b-4ea2-aefd-8a9e6332452c/DC0292B6-B2E1-49F3-AAB1-D4EE98952F67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/">Is this an image of two galaxies?  Actually, its three interacting galaxies that are locked in a gravitational tug-of-war</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/trio-of-galaxies.jpg" href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/trio-of-galaxies.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/trio-of-galaxies.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/38892100-02F4-4C7C-A008-22456C08F8E3" alt="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/trio-of-galaxies.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/">The give and take going on here may eventually tear at least one galaxy apart, and someday the three will likely merge into one super-large galaxy.  This new image from the Hubble Space <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/">Telescope</A>'s Advanced Camera for Surveys allows astronomers to view the movement of gases from galaxy to galaxy, and already, strong tidal interaction surging through the galaxies has dragged a significant number of <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/">stars</A> away from their original homes.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/">The three galaxies are about 100 million light-years away, in the constellation of <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/contellations/piscis-austrinus/">Piscis Austrinus</A> (the Southern Fish).  The three pictured galaxies — NGC 7173 (middle left), NCG 7174 (middle right) and NGC 7176 (lower right)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/03/hubble-watches-triple-galaxy-smash-up/">NGC 7173 and NGC 7176 appear to be smooth, normal elliptical galaxies without much gas and dust. In stark contrast, NGC 7174 is a mangled spiral galaxy, barely clinging to independent existence as it is ripped apart</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC0292B6-B2E1-49F3-AAB1-D4EE98952F67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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