{"id":448995,"date":"2026-01-31T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:39:16","slug":"two-galaxies-in-cosmic-dance-looks-like-bird-in-flight-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448995\/","title":{"rendered":"Two galaxies in cosmic dance looks like bird in flight | National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Astronomers reveal two galaxies that resemble bird in flight\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have captured a striking image of two galaxies locked in a cosmic dance that resembles a bird in flight. (NASA \/ Hubble Space Telescope via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>By Dean Murray<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have captured a striking image of two <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/07\/07\/astronomers-reveal-how-infant-galaxies-appeared-in-early-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">galaxies<\/a> locked in a cosmic dance that resembles a bird in flight.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> photographed the pair, known as ESO 593-8, located around 650 million light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Archer.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center said Thursday (Jan 29): &#8220;Birds of a feather.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Astronomers reveal two galaxies that resemble bird in flight\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA \/ Hubble Space Telescope via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>Hubble captured a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/05\/22\/astronomers-spot-cosmic-joust-for-first-time-as-two-galaxies-collide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">interacting galaxies<\/a> that looks like a bird in flight! Astronomers believe these two galaxies will someday merge into a single galaxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social media users were impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Bill commented on Facebook: &#8220;Beautiful. The never ending <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2024\/11\/25\/space-scientists-observe-five-galaxies-colliding-at-2-million-mph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">possibilities are astonishing<\/a>,&#8221; while Michelle Lee Cogan posted: &#8220;My goodness it looks like a dove.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomers have captured a striking image of two galaxies locked in a cosmic dance that resembles a bird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,49238,128],"class_list":["post-448995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dean-murray","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}