Credit & Copyright: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA; R. Colombari, M. Zamani & D. de Martin
(NSFBs NOIRLab)
Explanation:
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones.
Even our own galaxy engages in
a sort of galactic
cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and
are captured by
the Milky Way's gravity.
In fact, the
practice is common
in the universe and illustrated by this striking pair of interacting
galaxies
from the banks of the southern constellation
Eridanus,
The River.
Located over 50 million light years away,
the large, distorted spiral NGC 1532 is seen
locked in a gravitational struggle with
dwarf galaxy NGC 1531,
a struggle the smaller galaxy will
eventually lose.
Seen nearly edge-on, spiral NGC 1532 spans about 100,000 light-years.
The merging galaxies are captured
in this sharp image from the
Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National Science FoundationBs
Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American
Observatory in Chile.
The NGC 1532/1531 pair is thought to be similar
to the well-studied system of face-on spiral and small companion
known as M51.
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