From the February 2016 Desktop News | When Dr. Jimmy Irwin, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, began his research on the Cheshire Cat group of galaxies, he was interested in more than just the teasing smile of a disappearing cat. “The two bright eye galaxies,” Irwin said, “are actually moving very fast relative to one another, so I thought this may be a collision between two groups.” And if there was a collision, the new galaxy would […]
Where Science Meets Fiction
![The x-ray image superimposed over the optical image creates the purplish smile of The Cheshire Cat Galaxy Group.](https://as.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cheshire-Cat-Composite.jpg)