This video takes the viewer deep into an apparently sparsely occupied region of the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Here at the centre, looking like many other faint spots, is a remarkable object, a gravitationally lensed view of a distant galaxy merger. About the Object Name: H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 Data: arxiv.org/abs/1406.4859 Type: • Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed Facility: Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, CARMA, Gemini Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy Related releases Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe ALMA applies methods of Sherlock Holmes: eso.org/public/news/eso1426/ Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. They enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new studies of the galaxy H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks like the well-known local galaxy collision, the Antennae Galaxies. Release date: 26 August 2014 Credit: ESO/NASA/ESA/W. M. Keck Observatory/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Music: movetwo
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:02:47 +0000
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