The spiral galaxy lies 120 million light-years away, in the northern constellation Cepheus. This would compress the gas to precipitate into stars, and trigger a firestorm of starbirth. It could also be due to NGC 2276 plowing into the superheated gas that lies among galaxies in galaxy clusters. This may have been triggered by a prior collision with a dwarf galaxy. They trace out a lane of intense star formation. In addition, newborn and short-lived massive stars form a bright, blue arm along the upper left edge of NGC 2276. But, like snowflakes, no two close encounters look exactly alike. This sort of "tug of war" between galaxies that pass close enough to feel each other's gravitational pull is not uncommon in the universe. In reality, a neighboring galaxy to the right of NGC 2276 (NGC 2300, not seen here) is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of the galaxy outward to distort the galaxy's normal fried-egg appearance. But the bulge in NGC 2276 looks offset to the upper left. A bright hub of older yellowish stars normally lies directly in the center of most spiral galaxies. The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. The galaxies are only getting a little chewed up because of their close proximity. It's the universe's equivalent of the 19th century children's poem about two stuffed animals – the gingham dog and calico cat - who got into a spat and ate each other. When two galaxies come close to each other they feel each other's gravity and are distorted, like pulling on cotton candy. Galaxies are not solid objects but tenuous agglomerations of tens of billions of stars. In reality, the stars on the right side of the galaxy are being pulled like taffy by the gravitational tug of a neighboring galaxy, not seen in this close-up view. The central bulge is off in one corner relative to the surrounding disk of bright young blue stars. The galaxy in this Hubble photo looks like it is sliding off the frying pan.
A central bulge of aging stars is like the egg yolk, surrounded by a disk of stars that are the egg white. "It is that collaboration that has enabled us to deliver a unique mobile experience that brings the vastness of the epic Star Wars franchise into the palm of your hand, available later this year on the App Store and Google Play.The myriad spiral galaxies in our universe almost all look like fried eggs. "We have a great partnership with the talented folks at Lucasfilm and Disney Interactive," Salera added.
The game is being developed at EA's mobile-focused Capital Games studio in Sacramento, CA, which also developed the CCG-inspired Heroes of Dragon Age. This is something executive producer John Salera commented on, saying, "We’re giving players a truly extensive Star Wars experience."
In keeping with the collection element of the genre, Galaxy of Heroes isn't limited in time and space, but will let players build their decks with characters and ships from the various films as well as the Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV shows. It looks like there will be a galactic clash between EA and Kabam later in 2015 as both companies launch Star Wars licensed mobile games.Ī couple of weeks ago, we heard about Star Wars: Uprising, which is Kabam's all-singing all-dancing RPG.Īnd now EA has announced its card-collection game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes.