Hubble Spies "Cosmic Dust Bunnies"

[zavvy]

<b>Hubble Spies "Cosmic Dust Bunnies"</b><br /><br />LINK<br /><br />"Cosmic dust bunnies"—as scientists have nicknamed the brownish dust in this image—are often mundane remains of major events. The swirling clouds seen here are leftovers of a spiral galaxy (or two or three) that, sometime in the last few billion years, careened into the galaxy NGC 1316, scientists say. NGC 1316 is some 75 million light-years away from Earth. <br /><br />Released to the public today, this image of an inner region of NGC 1316 is a composite of multiple views captured through different Hubble Space Telescope color filters in 2003. A U.S. team of scientists combined the images to better understand how galaxies like NGC 1316 may have formed during galaxy mergers and how they evolve after the collisions. <br />

 

[noone]

That's a cool picture.

 

[zavvy]

I can't help feeling that if I'd named this thread "Hubble Spies Cosmic Playboy Bunnies" it might have attracted more attention..<br /><br />It's my own fault. I should have posted this story on a Space and Science BBS... <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />