The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a strange 'face' in the universe

In its quest to find images in its endless universe, NASA's Hubble telescope accidentally recorded images of a weird 'face'.

It is known that the two galaxies are in the process of colliding at a distance of 704 million years from Earth.

The star bands of the two galaxies create the basic lines of the 'face' , while the two glowing 'eyes' are at the center of the two galaxies.

This 'face' will last for 100 million years and the two mentioned galaxies will merge within 1 to 2 billion years.

Picture 1 of The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a strange 'face' in the universe
The two galaxies collided with each other and created a scary 'face' image for Halloween.

It is rare for galaxies to unify in the style of a ring like the one in the image above and have only been recorded several hundred times.

For this to happen, galaxies must collide precisely to make the ring appear.

The collision will pull the gas disks, dust and stars out of the two galaxies and create a "face" and "nose" image like in the image.

What makes the scientists note is the location of the central part of the two galaxies, which create two unusual 'eyes' . They are nearly the same size, so it can be said that these two galaxies are similar in size.

Unusual galactic collisions in the form of small galaxies are swallowed up by a large galaxy.

The Halloween 'galaxy face' galaxy system has been named Arp-Madore 2026-424 (AM 2026-424) in the Arp-Madore's Southern Galaxy catalog.

Astronomer Halton Arp published a list of 338 strange galaxies of galaxies in 1966 and collaborated with colleague Barry Madore to search for similar phenomena in the southern night sky. Thousands of new galaxies have been discovered.

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