As much as the Hubble Space Telescope has been in operation for years, it has proven that it still does its job, a since the instrument captured the exact moment of what is believed to be a merger between galaxies, or rather three galaxies. This event is also known as “triple galactic merger”.
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The event occurred at a distance of approximately 681 million light years from planet Earth. Also, sometimes such mergers can lead to the emergence of new stars because they contain a large accumulation of matter.
What is the "triple galactic merger"?
Being a fairly common event in any part of the universe, the “triple galactic merger” is a huge universal event, which occurs when three galaxies merge due to their gravitational forces that pull each other. The image taken by the telescope managed to record the exact moment in which the three were.
Furthermore, scientists claim that in the distant future, the Milky Way may undergo this process along with the Andromeda Nebula galaxy. Such an event is predicted to happen more than four billion years from now.
Galaxy Zoo science project
According to records from the European Space Agency (ESA), the conglomerate photographed by the space telescope Hubble is codenamed IC 2431 and has its location specified in the constellation Cancer.
In addition, according to the ESA, the Galaxy Zoo scientific project holds the rights to the image, and in this program, scientists investigate several galaxies through Hubble. According to the agency, more than 100,000 volunteer agents have already contributed to the classification of around 900,000 captures.
Thus, the research results may help to better understand the past and more assertively predict the future of the Milky Way. Well, it was through such observations that they were able to estimate that, in the last 10 billion years, our galaxy has encompassed more than 12 other galaxies, for example.