Astronomical name means names like M101 or NGC 3456...
2006-08-20 06:59:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The astonomical name for the Cartwheel Galaxy is: MCG-06-02-022a. It is also called ESO 350-40. Unknown as to why there are two names... possibly to show that there are 2 galaxies, not one.
The reason it has this shape is beacuse the two galaxies collided with one another roughly 200 million years ago.
2006-08-20 07:11:20 · answer #1 · answered by Krynne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40)
This is the info i got from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartwheel_Galaxy
The galaxy was once a normal galaxy like the Milky Way before it underwent a head-on collison with a nearby galaxy. When the nearby galaxy passed through the Cartwheel Galaxy, the force of the collison caused a powerful shock wave through the galaxy, like a rock being tossed into a sandbed.
Moving a high speed, the shock wave swept up gas and dust, creating a starburst around the galaxy's center portion that were unscathed. This explains the bluish ring around the center, brighter portion.
Hope this helps.
2006-08-20 07:08:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go into my 360 and you will find a link to the hubble space telescope and click it open then look for galaxys there are hundreds of them, all by there proper name,
good luck, also you will find more fun stuff in there like the eerie sounds that saturn makes, ,,, feel free to check it out and you will find what ur lookin for,,, here is the latest Release from nasa on the cartwheel galaxy, dated 8-23-06
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/?msource=10106&tr=y&auid=1905711
2006-08-20 07:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ESO350-40
It is the result of the collision of two separate galaxies.
That said, its dynamics are not well understood. No existing galaxy model can simulate its behavior. It appears to be unstable and is creating a second ring near the center disruptive galaxy.
2006-08-20 07:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the shapes come from an astronomical fluke: 2 galaxies colided to give it this weird shape.
PS: damn it! even the wikipedia had all the information you needed!!! why don't people search the wikipedia before asking questions here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartwheel_Galaxy
the name you're looking for is ESO 350-40
2006-08-20 07:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is also known as ESO 350-40 and MCG-06-02-022a and it got its shape from colliding with another galaxy and it is 500 million lightyears away
2006-08-20 07:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋