The Hubble Space Telescope has provided an incredible image of a “river” of stars, where 4 galaxies closely interact.
The newly modified image from the telescope, originally released in 2010, shows a rare interaction between celestial bodies in the Hickson Compact Group 31 galaxies.
And NASA revealed the new image on the 17th of this month, with scientists referring to the phenomenon depicted as “a river formed of stars.”
And the agency wrote, in its statement, which was reported by Russia Today, yesterday: The newly modified Hubble Space Telescope image of “NASA” of the Hickson Cluster 31 (HCG 31) sheds light on star-forming streams, while 4 dwarf galaxies interact.
In the image, above center right, is a distorted group of bright blue and white stars. This region is called NGC 1741, and it’s actually two dwarf galaxies colliding.
To the right, a cigar-shaped dwarf galaxy joins the “dance” with a thin blue stream of stars connecting the trio.
There is a fourth galaxy in the lower left center of the image, a stream of young blue stars points directly at it, and the 4 are linked together in a relatively small space.
And NASA wrote that the bright object in the middle of the image is a star located between Earth and HCG 31.
Collisions of dwarf galaxies are usually seen billions of light years away, which means they happened billions of years ago.
