News Release Archive: Galaxy > Interacting

2002 (continued)

• 4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 11. Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
• 4/9/2002 STScI-2002-09 12. Hubble Astronomer Creates Spectacular Galaxy Collision Visualization for the National Air and Space Museum Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision... (More)

2001

• 1/11/2001 STScI-2001-04 13. Hubble's Ultraviolet Views of Nearby Galaxies Yield Clues to Early Universe Astronomers are using these three Hubble telescope images of nearby galaxies to help tackle the question of why their distant relatives... (More)
• 1/9/2001 STScI-2001-02 14. Intergalactic 'Pipeline' Funnels Matter Between Colliding Galaxies This visible-light picture, taken by the Hubble telescope, reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies... (More)

2000

• 11/2/2000 STScI-2000-34 15. A Bird's Eye View of a Galaxy Collision What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. The "bird" is a large spiral galaxy... (More)
• 5/11/2000 STScI-2000-14 16. Hubble Heritage Program Wins Photography Award Through an extraordinary chance alignment, the Hubble telescope has captured a view of a face-on spiral galaxy lying precisely in front of another larger spiral. (More)

1999

• 11/22/1999 STScI-1999-45 17. Multiple Galaxy Collisions Surprise Hubble Astronomers Wrecks between two galaxies were a common occurrence in the early cosmos. But pileups among several galaxies? Astronomers conducting a three-year survey of ultra-luminous infrared... (More)
• 11/4/1999 STScI-1999-41 18. A Grazing Encounter between Two Spiral Galaxies The Hubble telescope has caught a cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy, NGC 2207, is on the left; the smaller one, IC 2163, is on the right. (More)
• 7/15/1999 STScI-1999-28 19. Cosmic Collisions - European HST Scientists Catch Merging Galaxies in the Act Exciting Hubble telescope images of more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies indicate that, at least in some cases, big massive... (More)

1997

• 10/21/1997 STScI-1997-34 20. Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions The Hubble telescope has uncovered over 1,000 bright; young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense, brilliant "fireworks show" at the heart of a pair of colliding... (More)