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The Penguin Galaxy (NGC 2936) and its "egg" (NGC 2937) // Markus Adamaszek

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Interacting Galaxies: ARP142 & ARP194

ARP142 resembling a penguin(ngc2936) protecting its egg(ngc2937) and ARP194 called a cosmic question mark

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Merging Galaxies from Afar

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The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble 

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took a dive. Dubbed the Porpoise Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. A burst of young blue stars forms the nose of the porpoise toward the right of the upper galaxy, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like a penguin protecting an egg. Either way, intricate dark dust lanes and bright blue star streams trail the troubled galaxy to the lower right. In a billion years or so the two galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.

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(NASA)  The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy-- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took a dive. Dubbed the Porpoise Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. A burst of young blue stars forms the nose of the porpoise toward the right of the upper galaxy, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like a penguin protecting an egg. Either way, intricate dark dust lanes and bright blue star streams trail the troubled galaxy to the lower right. The featured re-processed image showing Arp 142 in unprecedented detail was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope last year. Arp 142 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation, coincidently, of the Water Snake (Hydra). In a billion years or so the two galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.

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"Webb portrait of interacting galaxies Penguin and Egg" 12 July '24. Combined NIRCam and MIRI image, by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Galaxy duo: 'Arp 142', and separately, Penguin: NGC 2936, Egg: NGC 2937.

MIRI image, by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). "This image was taken by MIRI, the telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument, which astronomers use to study cooler and older objects, dust, and extremely distant galaxies."

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Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light

https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-releases-webb-telescope-images-galactic-merger-2024-07-12/

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-Interacting galaxies Arp 142

"The interacting galaxy duo near the bottom of this image is arp 142. The pair contains the disturbed, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936 along with its elliptical companion NGC 2937 at lower left. Above them is an unrelated, bluish galaxy called UGC 5130."

"El dúo de galaxias que interactúa cerca de la parte inferior de esta imagen es el arp 142. El par contiene la galaxia espiral perturbada y formadora de estrellas NGC 2936 junto con su compañero elíptico NGC 2937 en la parte inferior izquierda. Por encima de ellos hay una galaxia azulada no relacionada llamada UGC 5130."

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