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| Cosmic Owl | |
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| Observation data | |
| Constellation | Sextans [1] |
| Right ascension | 10h 00m 14.189s [2] |
| Declination | +02° 13′ 11.72″ [2] |
| Redshift | 1.14 [2] |
| Characteristics | |
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| Mass | 3.20×1011 [3] M☉ |
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The Cosmic Owl, located at redshift z=1.14, 8.8 billion light-years away, is a pair of galaxies of two nearly identical ring galaxies undergoing collision and merger, The two rings form the eyes of the owl, while the merger zone forms the beak, giving this celestial object the appearance of an owl's face. This collision represents an important observational target for galaxy research, as several interactions are occurring in the system, to test theories of galaxy evolution. The merging galaxies have collisional starbust, AGN jet impingment and starburst, ring galaxies themselves, and the galaxy collision itself. [4] [3] [5]
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