Showing posts with label The Antennae Galaxies in Collision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Antennae Galaxies in Collision. Show all posts
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Antennae Galaxies in Collision
Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. But when two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. That's because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space. During the slow, hundred million year collision, one galaxy can still rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust
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