eurekalert.org — A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
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mousseOct 19, 2006
Hey baby, I feel we have a gravitational attraction. What do ya say you and I collide and make some stars?
rjpaezOct 19, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0615a.jpg">http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0615a.jpg</a>What an amazing image!
schnitziOct 19, 2006
Whenever I encounter someone who thinks the universe is only 6000 years old, I point them at a picture like this, and ask them if they think these galaxies were created mid-collision, with the light from them already 99% of the way to Earth.If they say yes, then there's no point in continuing the conversation. Because, there could be no other evidence I can give them for the age of the universe that they couldn't also be explained away in a similar pigheaded fashion.
jereduttOct 19, 2006
I agree that 2 eyes are better than 1. No reason to not continue to use something that is outdated technology as long as you get value out of it. Kinda like using my PC as an external hard drive while my Mac dominates the universe.JerePS - now that some of you mention it..that is pretty sexy
schnitziOct 19, 2006
Then what of the claim that the universe was created last Thursday? And that we were all created with memories of earlier times?I hope you at least have the intellectual temerity to call that baloney. But then, there's no real difference between that and saying it was created 6000 years ago. Both theories directly deny the evidence at hand, which to me is the very definition of pigheadedness.
mand0lesiOct 19, 2006
From TFA: "seemingly a violent clash between a pair of once isolated galaxies, but in reality a fertile marriage. "Not really a fertile marriage to any of the living life forms that could inhabit any of those planets. Imagine being able to see the planet in the sky that will eventually be smashing right into you. Fascinating stuff!
mand0lesiOct 19, 2006
From TFA: "seemingly a violent clash between a pair of once isolated galaxies, but in reality a fertile marriage. "Not really a fertile marriage to any of the living life forms that could inhabit any of those planets. Imagine being able to see the planet in the sky that will eventually be smashing right into you. Fascinating stuff! "The give us (sic) a preview of what may happen when our Milky Way galaxy likely collides with the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy about 6 billion years from now."If anything is still alive on Earth at that time, there most likely won't be after this!(Sorry for double post)
ruthiechanOct 19, 2006
God probably used all the materials at his disposal in the universe, materials that have been around for million or billions of years. . .I bet God's time is different from our time. In the original version of the bible what was translated as one day was an "indeterminable amount of time" in hebrew. So one day to God is many many years earth time. After creating Adam and Eve God rested on the 7th day, so Adam and Eve were probably in the Garden of Eden for quite a long time before being cast out since the events that transpired happened after the 7th day. The Garden was a place on the earth so other creatures were living outside Eden.Who knows what method God used to create this earth. It may have been more involved than just a snap of the fingers. While it doesn't make sense that humans came from apes I do believe that the theory of evolution and religion aren't mutually exclusive.So yes, the earth and various materials used probably existed for far longer than 6000 years, but it has been 6000 years since Adam and Eve left the garden methinks to multiply and replenish the earth.