Published 03:48 IST, November 1st 2020

NASA's Hubble telescope spots 'Greater Pumpkin' galactic collision for Halloween surprise

While people are celebrating Halloween, NASA has released brilliant images of the newly discovered ‘greater pumpkin’ on the cosmic map. Take a look here:

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While people are celebrating Halloween, NASA has released brilliant ims of newly discovered ‘greater pumpkin’. Ims from US ncy’s Hubble Telescope show what looks like a giant jack-o’-lantern in outer . According to NASA, cosmic ‘Greater Pumpkin’ which looks like a Halloween decoration tucked away in a patch of sky is actually a picture of early sts of a collision between two galaxies. 

While sharing video and im on its website, NASA wrote, "Sorry Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as 'Greater Pumpkin'". 

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pumpkin’s face consists of two aging red stars, which form eyes and gives region an orange glow, and a cracked blue smile me up of newborn star clusters. With a scattering of blue stars in background, im looks as though pumpkin dressed up in glitter for Halloween. According to US ncy, entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years away -- approximately diameter of our Milky Way. 

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‘Beginning of process to rebuilt spiral galaxy’

While explaining im, NASA said that 'smile' may be beginning of process to rebuild a spiral galaxy. arm of smile embraces both galaxies and was most probably formed when interstellar gas was compressed as galaxies began to merge.

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NASA informed that most of time when two galaxies collide, y lose ir typical flattened disk shape and stars within each galaxy get scrambled into a new football-shaped  forming an elliptical galaxy. 

ncy ded, "But this interacting pair is a very rare example of what may turn out to result in a bigger fried egg— construction of a giant spiral galaxy. It may depend on specific trajectory colliding galaxy pair is following. encounter scenario must be rare because re's only a handful of or examples in universe." 

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03:48 IST, November 1st 2020