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Cosmic Owl
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English
Etymology
en cosmic owl. From being a celestial object having the appearance of an owl's face.
Proper noun
The Cosmic Owl
en Galaxies en astronomy A en galaxy pair composed of two almost identical en ring galaxy ring galaxies located at redshift z=1.14 which are undergoing collision and merger, wherein the collisional zone forms the beak, and the two rings form the eyes of the owl face.
en 20 June 2025 Astronomers Capture the 'Cosmic Owl' – A Rare Galaxy Collision That Looks Like an Owl’s Face! Lydia Amazouz Daily Galaxy Through detailed imaging and spectroscopy, the Cosmic Owl was observed at a redshift of 1.14, which places it at a significant distance in the early universe. https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/astronomers-capture-the-cosmic-owl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251218172339/https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/astronomers-capture-the-cosmic-owl/ 18 December 2025
Further reading
en 11 June 2025 Mingyu Li, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Zheng Cai, Takumi S. Tanaka, Wilfried Mercier, Yunjing Wu, Fujiang Yu, Fengwu Sun, Fuyan Bian, Emanuele Daddi, Xiaohui Fan, Xiaojing Lin, Jianwei Lyu, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Francesco Valentino The Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at z=1.14 arXiv [astro-ph.GA] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10058 ; arXiv: 2506.10058; DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10058; bibcode: 2025arXiv250610058L;