Pan across Merging Galaxies NGC 5256 | Hubble

Pan across Merging Galaxies NGC 5256 | Hubble

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the galaxy NGC 5256, about 350 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is actually the result of two galaxies merging. The pan shows that the galaxy is composed of two disc galaxies whirling around each other in the last stage of a cosmic collision. In the process the gas from within the galaxies—colored in red in this image—is thrown into space and performs a slow dance around the merging galactic nuclei.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, NASA

Release Date: December 19, 2017

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #Galaxy #Galaxies #MergingGalaxies #NGC5256 #UrsaMajor #Constellation #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video