NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy

It be raining stars. What appears to be like to be a large cosmic umbrella is now identified to be a tidal dash of stars stripped from a minute satellite galaxy. The principle galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 4651, is in regards to the scale of our Milky Contrivance, whereas its stellar parasol appears to be like to elongate some 100 thousand light-years above this galaxy’s radiant disk. A minute galaxy used to be seemingly torn apart by repeated encounters because it swept backward and forward on eccentric orbits by NGC 4651. The final stars will completely drop encourage and turn out to be section of a blended larger galaxy over the next couple of million years. The featured image used to be captured by the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (CFHT) in Hawaii, USA. The Umbrella galaxy lies about 50 million light-years a long way-off toward the neatly-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator