apod.nasa.gov — Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars.
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bactameApr 20, 2008
It's hard to understand how such big things can exist and yet appear so handsomely majestic. They are saying the 'littler guy' on the right will be absorbed, in fact it used to rotate in the other clockwise direction. Neat.
yuskaApr 20, 2008
Probably something along the lines of "f**k!"
muchachoburachoApr 20, 2008
oh crap somebody get the mop. we got sheets of shocked gas here.
insanebrainApr 20, 2008
who ?
pillageApr 20, 2008
Why would our galaxy collide with a crappy sci-fi show?
daeyethApr 20, 2008
"Space t**s"Ah yes, the profound intelligence of the Digg community
tibsApr 20, 2008
Reminds me of Michelangelo's, The Creation of Adam.<a class="user" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/tibszero/SAu7wdxnb_I/AAAAAAAAAG0/6s-XXf9nCqY/god%26man.gif?imgmax=576">http://lh4.ggpht.com/tibszero/SAu7wdxnb_I/AAAAAAAA ...</a>
aeroslinApr 20, 2008
Collisions no, gravitational effects, yes. As we've seen in other observations, the collisions of two galaxies often causes the galaxy to create more new stars as the dust and gas from both, coalesce.
pgalioniApr 20, 2008
WHAT A SET OF JUGS! I JUST LOVE SPACE! Will She EVER love me as much as I love her? sigh . . . .
daz3Apr 21, 2008
If there was some kind of "kaboom" in the form of a gravitational wave, it would travel to us at the speed of light and therefore the number of years it would take to reach us is the same as the distance (in light years) that the epicenter of said "kaboom" is from us.
triccareApr 24, 2008
Want to see more? See the release today from the Hubble Space Telescope: Galaxies Gone Wild: <a class="user" href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/">http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ ...</a>