Recent observations from the +Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered an uncanny 100,000-light-year-long structure that looks like a string of pearls twisted into a corkscrew shape that winds around the cores of two colliding galaxies.
The unusual structure may yield new insights into the formation of stellar superclusters, the merger-driven growth of galaxies, and gas dynamics in the rarely seen merger process of two giant elliptical galaxies.
Please join +Tony Darnell Dr. +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis Lewis as they discuss this discovery with the astronomers who made the observations and working to understand the origin of this chain of young, blue “super star clusters”.
As always, your comments and questions are encouraged and welcome!
Here is s a link to the STScI Press Release:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/26/