A violent wind blown from the heart of a galaxy tells the tale of a merger

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 06:10 in Astronomy & Space

An international team led by a researcher from Hiroshima University has succeeded in revealing the detailed structure of a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy NGC 6240 (Figure 1). The team used the Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hawaii.

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