Berlin, 7 mar ( EFE).- the telescope of long-range ( VLT, by its acronym in English) of the Cerro Paranal Observatory, in Chile, has captured pairs of galaxies instructing in the Hercules galaxy cluster, reported today the southern European Observatory (ESO) from its headquarters in Germany.
Image was taken with the telescope (VST) tracking of the VLT of 2.6 metres, equipped with the OmegaCAM, a 268 megapixel camera which has a broad field, allowing you to simultaneously obtain sharp snapshots, precise and deep very quickly.
In less than three hours of observation, the camera managed to immortalize pairs of galaxies in the cluster of galaxies in Hercules – located about 500 million light-years in the constellation of Hercules, approaching, instructing and fused to form a single larger Galaxy.
In addition, astronomers determined that the Hercules galaxy cluster must be relatively young by its resemblance to the galaxies that can be seen in the distant universe, as they are perceived as they were when they were much younger, because its light takes billions of years to reach Earth.
Thus, this cluster of galaxies presented numerous interactions and a large number of gas-rich spiral galaxies with stellar formation.
On the other hand, the snapshot also shows the background galaxies found at greater distance, transmittable form weak and diffuse, while in the foreground appear several stars of the milky way and even several asteroids and the trail have left to slowly move across the image. EFE
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