Beautiful Cartwheel Galaxy

August 19, 2008 on 2:34 pm | In Information Universe |

This false-color view of the Cartwheel galaxy was created by combining images captured by 4 space telescopes:Galaxy Evolution Explorer,Hubble Space Telescope,Spitzer Space Telescope,and Chandra X-ray Observatory.Astronomers think a smaller galaxy,possibly one of two galaxies(bottom left),passed through the center of the Cartwheel galaxy 100 M years

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