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- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -1/+175Old. This happened 5 billion years ago.
- 69sofine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+66Bring it the ***** on Andromeda Galaxy... the Milky Way will be waiting for you in 3 billion years bitch.
- defenestration, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38Whoops. Sorry about the typo in the headline.
- Virtualtaco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
- RogerT1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26I'm almost certain that this "merger" of galaxies violates both state and federal anti-trust laws.
- Cerialthriller, on 10/10/2007, -8/+25Inaccurate! This is a picture of god playing pool on the 7th day
- vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Straight from NASA...
NASA's Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-13/release.shtml
Images
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-13/visuals.shtml - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12It's reallly not a probllem.
- NewPatriot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13a scandalous galatic 4-way
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Dang, I was hoping for more detailed pictures.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11This has to be a woman's fault. Because in all that vast empty space only a woman could find something to hit while driving.
- donflamenco234, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Was one of the galaxies Independent George and the other Relationship George?
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Point the Hubble at that and get some hi-res shots!
- redxii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Even though all stock holding planets and moons have approved the merger?
- whackaxe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7chill, the elections are in '08
- DoogieHowitzer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6By your logic, I could claim that cars meeting at 60mph head on isn't a collision either. The atoms of the cars don't touch, they simply experience strong forces at a close proximity such that the constituent parts of the colliding entities may diverge.
- evilevil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6god damn, check out that hot dot-on-dot action! http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2007-13b_small.jpg
- LegendarySock, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Inaccurate! God doesn't exist
- th3B3n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"The clashing galaxies are expected to eventually merge into a single, behemoth galaxy up to 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way."
But not before exchanging insurance information and contacting the police and EMS. - Virtualtaco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Cause "4 galaxies merging but no stars hitting one another" sounds a lot more exciting...
- macaddct1984, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And for those who want to see more and help out at the same time, there's always the GalaxyZoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org - ByronT, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3... why...
- mckinnej, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sexist, yes...Funny, HELL YES!
- jeffeb3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2oh *****.
- KiloCharley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just one Galaxy contains X number of Suns / Solar systems. Each solar system, with its own number of planets, and moons. And our nearest galaxy is 25,000 light years away! truly boggles the mind.
The size / space / time, of this galactic event, I don't know how anyone can fathom. To witness this 'ancient event' ..way cool. - Roblodocus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Galaxies don't "crash" in to each other so the article is somewhat misleading, the distances involved are so great that stars in merging galaxies rarely come within collision distance.
- gcnaddict, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2God playing pool... with who?
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They don't hit as if they were solid objects, but the individual stars that are caught in each other's gravity will alter their movement, and stars caught in the gravity of the galaxy centers will be drawn towards them. Some stars will spiral into one another, some will spiral into the galaxy center, some will be thrown out into space, and some will simply change their orbits around their galaxy. None of it will happen very fast, from our viewpoint.
- otheruser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Gravity is killing independent George.
- Screwy1138, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2our media is so f'd up. how is this not headline front page news on all the major news outlets? HOW DOES IT GET ANY BIGGER?????
- DS513, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2For a second there, I thought the title said "Ford Galaxies Collide". LOL. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fordgalaxy2006.jpg - Richandler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wonder if this will bring up any theories about how the universe might recondense if their are galaxies with 4 times the mass and 4 times the gravitational pull. Perhaps the universe, even while expanding, has galaxies that get bigger and bigger and then eventually it all explodes again.
- LegendarySock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Comment of the day.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If a galaxy is considered an "object" (and they typically are) then they are in fact "crashing" into each other. I'm willing to let it go in either case, it is a great find.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think Galactic Paris Hilton , Brittany spears and Lindsay were driving these galaxies.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What's even better is that the nearest galaxy (the Canis Major dwarf galaxy) is currently colliding with the Milky Way
- justo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"four way merger"... mmm, galaxy orgy
- Roblodocus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2You misunderstand, stars are so sparse in galaxies they are light years apart and a merger with another galaxy is unlikely to cause many solar systems to conflict. The closest one to our star (the sun) is about 4 light years away. I don't think you understand the scales involved.
- blademonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is a slow version of Geometry Wars.
- Monk22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1STFU debby downer
- CJKirk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In other words .... BURNED!
- GeorgeTirebiter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's gonna leave a mark!
- xombiefarts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How much death was involved was probably unmeasurable.
- darnit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1dork :)
- FlapJaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1GO ANDROMEDA BOOOOOO
- beastee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Heck yeah, RevHo lyric definately dugg up!
- scooby0110, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i agree. i love the rev.
- Stuntaneous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the oldest post on digg =0
- in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wow...great article...really enjoyed the post!
- in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is just amazing...its weird that all of this is going on and we as humans are pretty oblivious to all of it!
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