Gargantuan Galaxy NGC 1132 - A Cosmic Fossil

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is most likely to be a ?cosmic fossil? ? the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies.

Credit:

ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen), Klaus Dolag (MPA, Garching), CXC/Penn State University/G. Garmire, et al.

Narration:
Dr. Robert Fosbury

Design:
Martin Kornmesser

Web Technical Support:
Lars Holm Nielsen
Raquel Yumi Shida

Cinematographer:
Peter Rixner (www.perix.de)

Script:
Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi Shida

Director:
Lars Lindberg Christensen

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Gargantuan
• galaxy
• NGC1132
• cosmic
• fossil