Double Hubble Sequence Shows Galaxies Go Spiral
February 4, 2010 in Space by 8ify.com - Space
This image created from data taken from both the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey demonstrates that the Hubble sequence six billion years ago was very different from the one that astronomers see today. Credit: NASA, ESA, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, R. Delgado-Serrano and F. Hammer (Observatoire de Paris)
Galaxies come in all sorts of shapes. But in the past, the various galaxy shapes used to be more diverse and "peculiar" than they are now. Over time, according to a new study, galaxies tend to become spirals. "Six billion years ago, there were many more peculiar galaxies than now — a very surprising result," said Rodney Delgado-Serrano, lead author of a new paper. "This means that in the last six billion years, these peculiar galaxies must have become normal spirals, giving us a more dramatic picture of the recent Universe than we had before."
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