Eine Zusammenstellung von seltsamen Galaxien

the porpoise galaxy is beautiful, its also maybe the elden beast’s inspiration or a beautiful coincidence

It’s weird to look at this and just think that those are all collections of millions of stars and systems and not just clouds of gas (mostly).

I assume Lindsay-Shapley galaxy is in late merging stage? Another galaxy hit it in the direction of rotation, causing a separation of original galaxy’s arms? Though, I wonder how the core of second collided galaxy evolved, since it shouldn’t have merged yet, but it also isn’t seen on the image. Could it flew away stripped, as some globular cluster mini galaxy?

I love how fluid-like galaxies look. You can totally see how at a large scale, they behave like a liquid, but just at such a long time scale that we only live to see 1 frame of it.