Hubblecast 16: Galaxies gone wild!

One of the big mysteries in astronomy is how galaxies grow and evolve over time. Collisions between galaxies are thought to be key events that shape their development. A stunning collection of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released to mark the 18th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They give us a unique insight into how galaxies collide to form larger galaxies.

Credit:

ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Narration:
Dr. J

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

Acknowledgements for the images used in this Hubblecast: * Project lead: Lars Lindberg Christensen * Image processing: Davide de Martin (ESA/Hubble) and Zolt Levay (STScI) * Cosmetic cleaning: Amit Kapadia, Nuno Marques, Maximilian Kaufl (ESA/Hubble) * Colour correction and cosmetic adjustments: Zolt Levay (STScI) & Martin Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) * HST Principle Investigator: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook), and the PIs of Hubble Proposals 9735, 11091, 6276, 10575, 7129, 7467, 6438. * Astronomical processing pipeline: The STScI ACS team * Data Archiving and pipeline implementation: The ESO/ST-ECF Archive and the STScI Archive

Learn more at http://www.esa.int

This video has been released in the public domain by the ESA and all credit is to ESA for the production of this material.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hubble
• Space
• Telecope
• ESA
• NASA
• Webb
• VLT
• Galaxy
• Universe
• Solar
• Star
• Planet

[Makaronimano]

Man Hubble is awesome!I love these Space pictures..we are so tiny and rare but still humans kills each others.It sucks.

[TearyEyesAnderson]

In some views gravity is not even strong enough2hold on2 the outer stars in a Galaxy&then here they say how the gravity is so strong that not only does it affect the outer stars but it can pull other galaxies towards it.

[TearyEyesAnderson]

There is also the thought that dark matter must be out there&there is like 90% of it out there.I think they'll discover that the reason that gravity seems so weak is that it's only the smaller part of what will someday be called 'Actual gravity',&the solar system type view of it will be considered 'planetary' or weak gravity.

[utoobasaurus]

Awesome video! 10 thumbs up! Fav'd!

[KDaem]

formation of a galaxy takes millions or billions of year...

Puts our life span into perspective :s

[JusAnotherUTuber]

These vids are great, thanks for posting.

[Chrisjr2007]

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