Question: The American space agency (NASA) recently shared an image of Cosmic Rose. What this cosmic rose refers?
a) Interacting galaxies Arp 273
b) Whirlpool Galaxy
c) Andromeda Galaxy
d) Comet
Answer : (a)
Related Facts:-
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared an
- Image of Cosmic Rose.
- Cosmic Rose is an image which was obtained 10 years before via the Hubble Space Telescope of NASA.
- The photo has featured interacting galaxies Arp 273.
- This combination of interacting galaxies lies in the Andromeda constellation.
- These interacting galaxies located at 300 million light-years away from the Earth.
- Arp 273 is a combination of spiral galaxy UGC 1810 and UGC 1813. UGC 1810 is 5 instances heavier than UGS 1813.
- UGC 1810 has a disc that is tidally distorted into a rose shape.
- The distortion is on the whole due to the gravitational pull of UGC 1813 that lies beneath.
- It should be known that the Interacting Galaxies are these galaxies whose gravitational fields disturb one another.
- Hubble Space Telescope is the space telescope that was launched in 1990 into low Earth Orbit.