{"id":40763,"date":"2011-10-23T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mayall%e2%80%99s-object\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:39","slug":"mayall%e2%80%99s-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mayall%e2%80%99s-object.php","title":{"rendered":"Mayall\u2019s Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ae27_arp148_102111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ae27_arp148_102111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"373\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Colliding galaxies known as Arp 148. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI\/AURA)-ESA\/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville\/NRAO\/Stony Brook University)<\/p><\/div><p>I like the peculiar galaxies listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/ned.ipac.caltech.edu\/level5\/Arp\/Arp_contents.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arp&rsquo;s catalog<\/a>. We always hear the chances of stellar collisions are remote, but sometimes I have a hard time believing it. This particular example looks like the proverbial bullet popping the balloon, it looks like the pinkish colored galaxy has come through the other one, ripping a hole in it. I get a different feeling from the press release below.<\/p><p>You can get a larger version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2085.html\">here<\/a> (goes off site)<\/p><p>The NASA press release:<\/p><blockquote><p>This interacting pair of galaxies is included in Arp&rsquo;s catalog of peculiar galaxies as number 148. Arp 148 is the staggering aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed companion. The collision between the two parent galaxies produced a shockwave effect that first drew matter into the center and then caused it to propagate outwards in a ring. The elongated companion perpendicular to the ring suggests that Arp 148 is a unique snapshot of an ongoing collision. Infrared observations reveal a strong obscuration region that appears as a dark dust lane across the nucleus in optical light. Arp 148 is nicknamed Mayall&rsquo;s object and is located in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, approximately 500 million light-years away.<\/p><p>This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on April 24, 2008, the observatory&rsquo;s 18th anniversary.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliding galaxies known as Arp 148. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI\/AURA)-ESA\/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville\/NRAO\/Stony Brook University)I like the peculiar galaxies listed in Arp&rsquo;s catalog. 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