# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CalEwOgp4fp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11732980-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-01T23:15:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

There are three sides to this story 👇

A triangular star-birthing frenzy is fueled by a spectacular collision between two galaxies in this image captured by NASAHubble. Astronomers suggest that as the galaxies passed by each other they ignited the uniquely-shaped star-formation firestorm, where thousands of stars are bursting to life on the right-hand side of the image. 

The gravitational tussle between the two galaxies shows their differences: the galaxy on the left contains old stars and no new star birth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter. This is the galaxy responsible for yanking taffy-like strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies.

The galaxy on the right is home to younger stars no older than 1 million to 2 million years forming close to its center – Hubble’s sharpness reveals even some individual stars. They are among the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars. The pink blobs are giant, young, star clusters still enshrouded in dust and gas.

Credit: NASA, EuropeanSpaceAgency, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics / Flatiron Inst. and University of Washington); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

#NASA #Cosmos #Hubble #Galaxies #AstroPhotography #Triangles #Space #Stars

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