Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far

May 28, 2025 - Space - This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years away and began its trek to us through expanding space). Known as HerS 020941.1001557, this remote galaxy appears as a red arc partially encircling a leer más foreground elliptical galaxy located some 2.7 billion light-years away. Called SDSS J020941.27001558.4, the elliptical galaxy appears as a bright dot at the center of the image with a broad haze of stars outward from its core. A third galaxy, called SDSS J020941.23001600.7, seems to be intersecting part of the curving, red crescent of light created by the distant galaxy.
Fecha: 28/05/2025. leer menos

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