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By TechThop Team
Posted on: 13 Aug, 2022
Even though NASA's James Webb space telescope might be making headlines at the moment, other observations are still being carried out without the new spacecraft's assistance.
One example of an extraordinary observation happened to be captured in an image created by the NOIRLabs at the National Science Foundation. An image of two galaxies merging by the lab depicts their fate as the Milky Way are hinted at by this image.
Galactic mergers are of great interest to scientists because they occur about 60 million light-years from Earth. We can see in the picture what appears to be a merger between spiral galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 that has been underway for the last few million years but is not yet completed.
New images, released by NASA, show the galaxies colliding at 20,000 light-years away, but they are still about 20,000 light-years apart. It's beautiful, but it also serves as a reminder of what awaits the Milky Way galaxy as a whole in terms of its ultimate fate.
NOIRLabs' International Gemini Observatory captured the image. NOIRLabs has predicted that the two galaxies will continue to draw in on each other in the future. It is likely that they will trigger intense stellar formations as they do so.
Moreover, the appearance of the galaxies will begin to distort as well as their brightness of them. Because of gravity, the material within each one of them will be pulled towards one another.
NOIRLabs has said that the galaxies will circle each other for a long time, slowly becoming closer and closer until they eventually collide. There is a possibility for long streams of stars and gas to merge in such a situation until the two galaxies have completely merged.
NOIRLabs says that the photo is not only stunning, but it also shows the ultimate fate of the Milky Way, the galaxy we call home from which we came.
Since the beginning of the year, scientists have predicted that the fate of the Milky Way galaxy will result in a collision with our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda if it remains the way it is now.
It is true that we do not expect that collision to take place for at least five million years from now. If it does, the result is likely to look very similar to what can be seen in this newest image when it comes to the end result.
Studying the possibility of our own galaxy colliding with another is an excellent opportunity to examine the possibilities of the future.
We will be able to better understand the fate of our own Milky Way galaxy as we learn more about galactic mergers. There is no way humanity will still exist in a few hundred years. It is impossible to predict where things will be in five million years.
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