Nasa’s spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered a massive galaxy creating more and more new stars. The way that this massive cluster has been formed so quickly is by feeding off gases from other galaxies. Tracy Webb of McGill University explained that usually a star in the center of a galaxy is old and dead, but this new cluster within this rare galaxy is creating new stars very quickly by merging with other smaller galaxies. Clusters are families of galaxies bound together by the ties of gravity. This new cluster being studied is referred to as SpARCS 1049+56. It has at least 27 known galaxy members and a mass that is equal to nearly 400 trillion suns. It is 9.8 billion light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation. It was found by the Spitzer and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, located on the island of Maunakea in Hawaii, and was confirmed using the W. M. Keck
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The main galaxy in this cluster is creating around 860 new stars every year while our Milky Way only produces one to two every year. This is possible because a tinier galaxy has merged with the monster galaxy in the middle and is giving it fuel and gas to create a large amount of new stars.
The Hubble Telescope detected pockets of gas that condense where new stars are forming, called “beads on a string.” Beads on a string are signs of two gas-rich galaxies combining, which is know to astronomers as “wet-mergers.” SpARCs 1049+56 is one of the first known cases of a wet merger at the core of such a distant galaxy. Researchers are now planning studies to find out just how common galaxy clusters like SpARCS 1049+56 are.
I chose this article because I have always adored stars, and this was a new discovery about them. It is important to learn about what is happening outside of our atmosphere. This information is useful because you never know what might happen in our universe and how it might affect
The main galaxy in this cluster is creating around 860 new stars every year while our Milky Way only produces one to two every year. This is possible because a tinier galaxy has merged with the monster galaxy in the middle and is giving it fuel and gas to create a large amount of new stars.
The Hubble Telescope detected pockets of gas that condense where new stars are forming, called “beads on a string.” Beads on a string are signs of two gas-rich galaxies combining, which is know to astronomers as “wet-mergers.” SpARCs 1049+56 is one of the first known cases of a wet merger at the core of such a distant galaxy. Researchers are now planning studies to find out just how common galaxy clusters like SpARCS 1049+56 are.
I chose this article because I have always adored stars, and this was a new discovery about them. It is important to learn about what is happening outside of our atmosphere. This information is useful because you never know what might happen in our universe and how it might affect