Just in time for the holidays, NASA has released a new photo showing a spectacular light show created by a pair of merging galaxies 130 million light-years from Earth. The photo is a composite image of the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, located in the constellation Canis Major. (Story continues below image.) Spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163. The image is a mash-up of X-rays captured by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (shown in pink), visible light data from the Hubble Space Telescope...
Colliding Galaxies Mount 'Spectacular Light Show' In New NASA Image
The Huffington Post - 17 Dec 2014 21:40
Just in time for the holidays, NASA has released a new photo showing a spectacular light show created by a pair of merging galaxies 130 million light-years from Earth. The photo is a composite image of the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, located in the constellation Canis Major. (Story continues below image.) Spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163. The image is a mash-up of X-rays captured by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (shown in pink), visible light data from the Hubble Space Telescope...
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