一个几乎正面的碰撞是安德罗米达星系两个偏离中心的环的起源

D L Block1, F Bournaud, F Combes

  • 1Anglo American Cosmic Dust Laboratory, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa. block@cam.wits.ac.za

Nature
|October 20, 2006
PubMed
概括

安德罗米达星系 (M31) 有两个尘埃环,这表明过去与伴侣星系 (可能是M32) 发生了正面碰撞. 这一事件重塑了我们最近的螺旋邻居.

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