Astronomers have photographed the "galaxy-Medusa"

Astrologers of the Hawaiian Institute and the Institute of Durham NC in England took a picture of the galaxy, which has taken the form of Medusa after a conflict with the star cluster virgin. Research scientific workers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, briefly tell about it Space.com and New Scientist.

The image taken by the Hubble telescope, visible galaxy IC 3418 with the "tentacles"that stretch in the lower left side of the photo. They consist of a great number of turbulent interstellar gas, and contain a young, bright in the ultraviolet spectrum of the star. The universe is removed from the Territory by 54 million light-years. In the ultraviolet spectrum of the picture managed to get through the orbital telescope GALEX.

According to the version of astrophysicists, these "tentacles" arose in consequence of the conflict IC 3418 with a nearby Virgo cluster, which contains about one and a half thousand of individual galaxies. The collision of gas clouds cluster and galaxies led to turbulent disturbance forming gas clouds cluster and galaxies led to turbulent disturbance forming gas clouds and stimulated the formation of new stars in the "tentacles" IC 3418.

Understanding the mechanism of collision of galaxies is relevant for the study of star formation. Previously astrologers have not once seen as a clash between galaxies leads to a sharp increase in the number of the newest stars. Collisions of galaxies with substance galactic cluster studied much worse, but can be very frequent in dense regions of the Universe.

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