Hubble Telescope Shares Photos Of Galaxies That Will Collision

Portrait of the Arp 122 galaxy which will collide to the right (photo: dock. ESA)

JAKARTA The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the latest portrait of the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope has captured images of two galaxies that will collide and become one.

The galaxy's portrait is referred to as Arp 122, a combination of the galaxies NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642. Before uniting, NGC 6040 was spiral-shaped tilted and curved, while LEDA 59642 was a round spiral-shaped face-to-face.

The ESA says that the meeting of these two galaxies is at a very safe distance, which is about 570 million light years from Earth. The merger of these two galaxies also occurs in a very slow time and will take another four billion years.

The collision and merger process will not last in a short time, it will take hundreds of millions of years to make it happen. This collision took a long time because the distance traveled was very far," ESA said in an official statement.

Meanwhile, the ESA has not been able to ascertain the cause of this collision process. Most likely, the components of the galactic compiler experience changes in the gravitational forces that work. Therefore, galaxies move and collide with each other until their structure is disrupted.

Each galaxy does have a different structure, but this structure will unite due to the merger. Astronomers have not been able to guess the final structure of Arp 122, but this structure may become a channel or elliptical.

The merger results are thought to have a regular or elliptical structure because the merger process interferes with a more complex structure. It will be very interesting to know what Arp 122 will look like after this collision is complete," concluded ESA.