Friday, August 8, 2025

What is the most amazing fact about the universe?

 Might not be the most amazing fact but definitely a great piece of trivia.

The immense forces (mainly the gravitational pull) acting in the vast universe are baffling and mesmerising.


In 2013, 
Hubble Space Telescope captured this beautiful phenomenon. This photograph is generally called the The Penguin and its Egg!

In reality, these are two galaxies 400 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Hydra.

The blue spiral galaxy, NGC 2936 (which has fondly earned the moniker of 'Penguin Galaxy') is twisted by the gravitational pull of the smaller elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 ('The Egg') below it.

The amazing fact here is the realisation of mammoth gravitational pull of a relatively smaller David-like galaxy, which has the "guts" to deform another bigger Goliath-like galaxy!

Inspiring, indeed.

References: Photo: Hubble Spies Galactic Penguin and Egg.