Tag: galaxy collition

Arp 244 (The Antennae Galaxies)

April 3, 2022

Antennae Galaxies are NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 interacting galaxies located in the Corvus galaxy about 60 million light-years from Earth. It was discovered in 1785 by the British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel.As a result of the collision between the two galaxies mentioned above, The dust particles formed into two tails, which got its name…

Satelite galaxy

November 22, 2021

Everyone has heard of moons.Satellites are objects that orbit the planets.It is as natural as the moon and has artificial satellites like ISS and Insat.Small objects orbiting large objects are commonly called moons. Similarly, smaller galaxies orbiting larger galaxies are called satellite-galaxies.That satellite galaxy will also contain billions of stars. But it’s only going to…