Stunning Nasa videos allow viewers to travel deep into space and experience different galaxies.
The one-and-a-half-minute long visualization was created using scientific data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
In April, NASA released a video showing viewers galactic travel to five different galaxies to mark Hubble’s 32nd birthday.
The set of five galaxies highlighted in the clip is known as the Hickson Compact Group 40.
Located in the constellation Hydra, regarding 300 million light-years away, the cluster consists of three spiral galaxies, one elliptical galaxy, and one lenticular galaxy.
At the beginning of the video, NASA finds Hickson Compact Group 40 in each constellation.
The video then zooms in on an isolated portion of the sky inhabited by the group’s five galaxies.
Finally, it shows the fly-through of each galaxy in the cluster and how they are positioned in relation to each other.
NASA recently shared stunning images of five unusually close galaxies along with an interactive video.
“Anyway, these different galaxies have taken different paths in their evolution to create a very complex and diverse galaxy sampler,” NASA told Hubblesite.
“An entire group of slow-gravity dancing groups is so crowded that they can fit into space less than twice the diameter of the stellar disk of our galaxy.”
Another surprising fact regarding these five galaxies is that in regarding 1 billion years they will all merge to form one giant elliptical galaxy.
Hubble’s snapshot (shown above) was captured at a very “special moment” in the galaxy’s lifetime, the US Space Agency said.
Groups of galaxies are not uncommon, but are usually found at the centers of larger clusters.
But the galaxy is “isolated, especially in a small part of the universe,” NASA notes.
One potential reason for this anomaly is the large amount of dark matter present in the area.
“If they get close to each other, dark matter can form large clouds in which galaxies orbit,” a NASA official explained.
“When galaxies pass through dark matter, they feel resistance due to the effect of gravity. This slows down their motion and causes the galaxy to lose energy and fall together.”
Astronomers observed the Hickson Compact Group 40 not only in visible light, but also in radio, infrared and X-ray wavelengths.
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