File:Hubble Images Reveal Supersonic Comet-Like Objects in Heart of Galaxy (1996-36-459).jpg
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editDescriptionHubble Images Reveal Supersonic Comet-Like Objects in Heart of Galaxy (1996-36-459).jpg |
English: Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic images of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding at nearly 700,000 mph through the galaxy's core. |
Date | 26 November 1996 (upload date) |
Source | Hubble Images Reveal Supersonic Comet-Like Objects in Heart of Galaxy |
Author | The Hubble images were taken by Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), and . The VLA radio telescope image was taken by Jim Higdon (Australia Telescope National Facility's Paul Wild Observatory. The VLA is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a National Science Foundation facility that is operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Cerro Tololo picture was taken by Victor Blanco. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation as part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. |
Keywords InfoField | Galaxies; Interacting Galaxies |
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