Pan on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

Pan on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 3256, located about 100 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the result of a merger between galaxies with similar masses. Although the collision is estimated to have happened 500 million years ago, the galaxy still bears the marks of this event—luminous tails of gas and dust surround the galaxy and in its center, new stars are born at a rapid rate.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble; Risinger/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Duration: 25 seconds

Release Date: June 27, 2018

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