NASA takes a picture of two colliding galaxies

For the first time in history, Chandra X-ray Astronomical Observatory of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has captured a small galaxy crashing into a large galaxy located 60 million years from Earth. the light.

According to CNET, Chandra X-ray has discovered that these two galaxies collided with each other, creating a huge shockwave and releasing a cloud of hot air of 6 million degrees.

The photo shows two galaxies colliding, creating a cloud of purple gas - (Photo: NASA.gov)

A photograph reproduced with X-rays and optical light shows a beautiful purple gas cloud. Observations of the Southern European Observatory telescope show that two galaxies are blue and white.

It is a scene of spiral galaxies NGC 1232 crashing into a smaller galaxy. Due to the way our solar system reaches 60 million light-years, the massive shockwave from the collision does not affect the Earth.

NASA said the collision process will last another 50 million years and continue to glow for hundreds of millions of years. The two-dimensional images do not indicate that the purple gas cloud concentrates heavily on an area or is thinly spread. NASA experts determined that even when thinly spread, this cloud of gas has a mass equivalent to 40,000 suns.

NASA experts say that observing this astounding astronomical phenomenon will help them better understand how galaxies evolve through similar collisions. NASA used to assume that galaxies are hard to collide with.