TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Telescope Hubble has photographed a very beautiful and released celestial object, IC 2431, a trio of distant galaxies located in the constellation Cancer. The trio consisted of LEDA 25476, Mrk 1224 or UGC 4756, which was discovered on February 24, 1896 by the French astronomer Stéphane Javelle.
“Telescope NASA/ESA Hubble Space captured what appears to be an ongoing merger of three galaxies, as well as a mixture of star formation and tidal distortion caused by the gravitational interaction of this trio of galaxies,” Hubble astronomers said last week.
“The center of the picture is obscured by a thick cloud of dust. Even so, the light from the background galaxy can be seen through the outer edge,” he added.
Image IC 2431 comes from a series of Hubble observations investigating a strange and amazing galaxy discovered by the citizen science project ‘Galaxy Zoo’.
The photo uses Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Astronomers took a closer look at some of the more unusual galaxies the volunteers identified.
The ‘Galaxy Zoo’ project is actually the largest galaxy census ever conducted and relies on crowdsourcing time from over 100,000 volunteers to classify the 900,000 unexamined galaxies.
With this project, what would have been years of work for a professional astronomer, was completed in just 175 days and has resulted in a similar stream of citizen science astronomy projects.
The Galaxy Zoo project has subsequently included the largest-ever study of merging galaxies and dwarf galaxies, as well as the discovery of an entirely new type of compact star-forming galaxy.
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