{"id":234442,"date":"2026-04-02T06:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/cosmic-collision-of-galaxies-mapped-by-maunakea-telescope"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:04:19","slug":"cosmic-collision-of-galaxies-mapped-by-maunakea-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/cosmic-collision-of-galaxies-mapped-by-maunakea-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic collision of galaxies mapped by Maunakea telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-collision-of-galaxies-mapped-by-maunakea-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An astronomer at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo is using data from the Canada\u2013France\u2013Hawai\u02bbi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been unfolding for hundreds of millions of years. A new study from principal investigator R. Pierre Martin, a professor of astronomy at UH Hilo, and international researchers such as Ph.D. student Camille Poitras and colleagues at Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, simulates the past, present, and future of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astronomer at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo is using data from the Canada\u2013France\u2013Hawai\u02bbi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been unfolding for hundreds of millions of years. A new study from principal investigator R. Pierre Martin, a professor of astronomy at UH Hilo, and international [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}