Wide-field view of the region of the sky around a ‘cosmic joust’

Eso_eso2509c_1024

eso_eso2509c May 21st, 2025

Credit: DESI Legacy Survey

This wide-field view shows the region of the sky around a pair of interacting galaxies, nicknamed the 'cosmic joust', in which one of them is piercing the other with intense radiation. The galaxies appear as a tiny white dot at the centre of this image. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) resolved them in great detail, and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) studied the damage that one galaxy is inflicting on the other.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2509c/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany

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Observation
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
Eso_eso2509c_1280
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eso2509c
Subject Category
D.5.1.7  
Subject Name
Credits
DESI Legacy Survey
Release Date
2025-05-21T17:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2509c/
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Observation
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Central Wavelength
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Equinox
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10709.0, 10449.0
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Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
https://www.eso.org
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
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None
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso2509c
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2509c.tif
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Metadata Date
2025-05-21T17:07:50.380596
Metadata Version
1.1
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