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Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter<\/h2>\n

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Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy UGC 3912. <\/div>\n
NASA, ESA, and C. Kilpatrick (Northwestern University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA\/Catholic University of America)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy \u2026 but you wouldn\u2019t know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> image. UGC 3912\u2019s distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy. When galaxies interact \u2013 either brush up against each other\u2019s gravitational fields or even collide \u2013 their stars, dust, and gas can be pulled into new paths. UGC 3912 might have once been an organized-looking spiral, but it looks like it\u2019s been smudged out of shape by a giant thumb.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, when galaxies interact, the individual stars and objects that orbit them remain whole even though their orbits can change so dramatically that the entire galaxy\u2019s shape is altered.\u00a0 That\u2019s because the distances between stars in galaxies are so vast that they don\u2019t crash into one another, just continue serenely along their new orbits.<\/p>\n

Astronomers are studying UGC 3912\u00a0 as part of an investigation into supernovae activity \u2013 when stars at least eight times larger than our Sun explode at the end of their lives. Hubble is examining one of the several types of supernovae, a hydrogen-rich phenomenon known as Type II. Though ample Type II supernovae have been observed, they exhibit enormous diversity in their brightness and spectroscopy and are not well understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tHubble Science: Galaxy Details and Mergers<\/span>
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\n\t\tHubble Science: Tracing the Growth of Galaxies<\/span>
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Media Contact<\/span>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Andreoli<\/em><\/strong>
NASA\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Goddard Space Flight Center<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Greenbelt, MD<\/em><\/strong>
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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