{"id":21445,"date":"2026-09-06T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=21445"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:40:01","slug":"na-%ca%bbuhane-mahoe-huki-pu-i-ke-ola-project-hokulani-names-two-galaxies-still-mid-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=21445","title":{"rendered":"N\u0101 \u02bbUhane M\u0101hoe Huki P\u016b i ke Ola, Project H\u014dk\u016blani Names Two Galaxies Still Mid-Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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High school students on Hawai\u02bbi Island gave NGC 7253 a name that already feels heavier than its catalog number. N\u0101 \u02bbUhane M\u0101hoe Huki P\u016b i ke Ola translates to \u201cThe Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life,\u201d and Gemini North on Maunakea recorded the pair with enough reach that pink knots of newborn stars sit in plain view. More than 200 million light-years out, in the stretch of Pegasus known in Hawaiian as Ka Lupe o Kawelo, two spiral galaxies tug at one another across about four million light-years of open space.<\/p>\n


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Gas and dust in those galactic arms collide, eventually doing the work of gravity. That compression then sets off a new wave of starlets. The blazing young stars emit radiation that ionizes the surrounding hydrogen. As a result, H II areas, which are essentially clouds of ionized hydrogen, show as big, bright pink patches in the Gemini North image. Halton Arp used to refer to the system as Arp 278 because it was a weird interacting galaxy. Albert Marth first discovered it on September 9, 1863. We can now see up close owing to the 8.1-meter telescope\u2019s GMOS-N instrument, which took photos with g, r, i, and H-alpha filters. These covered an area of approximately 5.1 by 4.1 arcminutes. Billions of years will pass until the two merge.<\/p>\n

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    \nThis shot was captured in October 2025, when a group of students arrived at Gemini North Hilo Base Facility. Raiyan Rahman, Rafan Rahman, and Alia Tamanaha represented Wai\u0101kea High School and Volcano School of Arts and Sciences. They spent a week learning about how the observatory collects data, hanging out with Maunakea, and settling on a target system. Raiyan later noted that NGC 7253 stood out since it was located in a Hawaiian constellation, unlike many of the other objects.<\/p>\n