NGC 1316: posle stolknoveniya galaktik
9.09.2015 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Astronomam prihoditsya stanovit'sya detektivami, kogda im nuzhno ponyat', chto proishodit v takih udivitel'nyh mestah, kak NGC 1316. Rassledovanie pokazalo, chto NGC 1316 — eto ogromnaya ellipticheskaya galaktika, kotoraya okolo 100 millionov let nazad nachala pogloshat' sosednyuyu men'shuyu spiral'nuyu galaktiku, NGC 1317, kotoraya vidna vverhu na etoi kartinke.