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- redwire, on 04/07/2009, -2/+6Just wait for when that happens to the Milky Way and Andromeda in a couple of billion years, those pics should be awesome. :)
- Kapitaine, on 04/07/2009, -2/+6Are these pictures real? I mean, are they actually how they were taken? I have never asked this before...but, are these literally representations that the camera saw or are all photos like this enhanced on computer ?
I've always wondered. If anyone can inform me that would be grand! - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+4What's interesting is even though it looks like they physically collide, 99% of the stars and matter will just pass through each other instead of colliding with each other as we'd expect.
What will affect both of them is gravity. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -1/+3how do you know the stars aren't colliding?
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2WTF is up with this Aloo Chat film spamming lately?
I would suggest a boycott of this film as retaliation for them spamming Digg, that is if you are in the region it is released in. - Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+3Indeed, but since information can not travel faster than light then you might as well think of it as happening right now as nothing can happen in the universe that can have any effect that travels faster than light, events in the vast reaches of the universe have to be thought of different than events in our own little neighborhood.
In fact there are events that occur which will never reach our corner of the universe, these are said to be outside our light cone.
It is this particular behavior of light that allows us to look far back in time to just a little while after the Big Bang. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+4It most likely wouldn't suck. The stars are not colliding and living there you would observer no noticeable difference
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2Indeed YOU are.
/s - Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2They simply merge into a larger singularity, this is how many of the supermassive singularities came into existence to begin with, there is at the very least a gravity wave when it happens.
- randumbusername, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1that's why i love space. you realize how unimportant you are.
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2Just like you see them, for there is NO WAY for anybody here to be there, nor anyway other than imagination for any information about there in the present getting here anytime sooner than light-speed.
- arizona01, on 04/07/2009, -2/+3Some pictures are captured using the visible spectrum of light like the Hubble Deep Field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
While others use a combination of visible light and x-rays like this image of the Eagle nebula.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
The one in this article looks like it was captured using visible light. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+3that's exactly what i was thinking, it would be so bright.
- Cheesepuffly, on 04/07/2009, -2/+3That universe, always being so big.
- jason210, on 04/07/2009, -2/+3most big telescopes have a few different cameras that record different spectrums of light. This is done for the purposes of tracking red shift etc.
I was there for the taking of this
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/imagegallery/Hale ...
this particular one is actually a composite of 17 photos so you can see the whole tail. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+3Pretty much. Humans (and every other life form on this planet) is a bigger part of a smaller system of life.
Much like your body, the planet is technically a living thing, and much like the cells in your body, each living thing on this planet contributes to the system of this living thing. However off the wall that seems, if you step back you'll see how everything kinda links together even down to a basic need to survive and reproduce on a viral/bacteria level.
Then obviously planets become part of a solar system, which becomes an even smaller portion of a larger galaxy. With hundreds of billions of galaxies contained in this "universe" container system of sorts, you can expect that there will also be billions of "universes" outside of that in an even larger container system. Even though that part hasn't been proven or observed, it's the pattern so far even going backwards down to atoms, so going up and out shouldn't be any different.
It's kind of a mind ***** if you think about it. - christoast, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2Just becuase you can't see something within the visible spectrum doesn't mean its any less "real" then a picture that was using xrays, infrared, radio etc...
- hawk196, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1haha this all happened already. I wonder what the two galaxies look like RIGHT NOW.
- Igrift, on 04/07/2009, -2/+1I look at the specs on the top left and think, ***** that's another galaxay.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+1I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us... all we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
- Maddoktor2, on 04/07/2009, -3/+3Imagine their night skies...
- jjmckay, on 04/07/2009, -2/+2boom bang crash thunk boing slam bonk shimmy peeeooww
- shaelen, on 04/07/2009, -3/+2The only solace I find in life is when I look out into space, at the stars, and understand that there is so much more than my simple little life here.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -3/+2so this already happend. 400 millions years away. it means this picture is over 400m years old.
- JohnFlux, on 04/07/2009, -2/+2Is a photo taken by a camera actually what the camera saw? After all, the camera does a lot of processing of the image.
- feelmypimphand, on 04/07/2009, -2/+2the whole thing takes place in slow motion -- over hundreds of millions of years
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Yes, but radiation sources do move around in a collision, this means that habitable worlds may not be habitable anymore once the collision occurs, however considering a collision can take hundreds of millions of years, then any conceivable entity living on these worlds would not really know what was happening.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2it says, its a smaller galaxy, its 200,000 light years across, just like milky way..thats not small...
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Earth will be quite different by then and the sun will have changed as well, it is rather vain to think there might be any remnants of mankind or descendants of us or our ways left in the universe by the time this happens.
- j0hnglist, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1great now I have Powerman 5000 - When Worlds Collide stuck in my head
- jason210, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Not sure Why I'm getting dugg down. I was friends with several astronomy grad students and literally they just sat there listening to pink floyd staring at the sky. All the professors were gone by 2:30 am when they would let us in.
- jayjomofro, on 04/07/2009, -0/+0Actually, It might not look too unlike our night sky for the same reason that prevents us from seeing the glorious details of the center of our own galaxy. Gas and dust that is, filtering out much of the visible light spectrum. The image in reference is likely a composite of visible light, infrared, and UV. Depending on the location and orientation of a viewer in either galaxy, the observational quality of light perceived could vary greatly. That is assuming that said viewer in either galaxy had eyes like our own...you know...for lookin.
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Get out of the web.
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Extreme radiation would probably destroy any lifeforms as the active nuclei pass through heading to the center of mass.
Think of it as the "habitable zone" of each galaxy ceasing to exist. - oninbonin, on 04/07/2009, -0/+0Everything is spinning! Wee!
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -2/+2The real source of this picture >>>> http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ ...
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1This photo is from The Hubble Space Telescope, they ran a competition a few months back for the general public to vote on which of about 7 points of interest to point the telescope towards, I was one of the ones who voted, but I voted on a beautiful edge on spiral galaxy.
LINK>>> http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ ... - lennybird, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2Oh so THIS is what it's like when worlds collide...
- Hurricane, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Mind ***** yes, but what you call a "mind" is just part of the infinite spiraling pattern.
Perhaps we live in a holographic universe (no NOT virtual reality, please watch less movies read more books and continue reading this comment), everything in it is a smaller part of a bigger whole with some repeating concepts, particles, atoms, molecules, compounds, life, complex life, planets, solar systems, galaxies... who knows what else, our entire universe could very well be an elementary particle inside an atom that is part of a molecule that is in a compound that is in a living entity on a planet in a solar system inside a galaxy inside a universe which in turn is an elementary particle.... so on to infinity.
Everything that can exist does exist and has existed and will always exist in infinite variety, it is much bigger than a human life, fear not mortality when you are part of such a pattern, for you have always been, are in infinite places now and will always be. Now THERE is a mind ***** for you. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+0What fascinates me about galaxies colliding is that since there is so much empty space virtually no planets or starts will even touch each other. Instead, the gravitational forces will just fling everything out of whack until it eventually converges into a new galaxy.
- MazdaEric, on 04/07/2009, -2/+1well i feel insignificant...
- Stoyanov, on 04/07/2009, -4/+4Photoshopped.
- onlines, on 04/07/2009, -1/+0Assuming life (intelligent) exists on a planet within either of those colliding galaxies; can life continue on for "hundreds of millions of years" while the galaxies are slowly colliding? Or is it game over, immediately?
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -3/+1He said get out of my yard and why are you communicating to my son. why are you in all black behind my bushes shining a light into my house? And I said I'm teaching your son about the universe. I'm shining a light right in there and exploring his room as he's looking out and exploring the universe.
I turn the light off and I see your son go to bed and I turn the light back on and I do swirls on the wall like a comet's tail.
I do this every night with your son. - Erik1421, on 04/07/2009, -3/+0I need to live longer, damn it!
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -2/+0When you consider the Earth is 4.5 billion years old , 2 billion years sounds pretty close!
- sleestakslayer, on 04/07/2009, -2/+0I've always wondered what would happen when two supermassive black holes collide, or merge. Is there a release of energy, or do they just absorb into each other? Can a black hole get too big?
- dw4prez, on 04/07/2009, -2/+1Great picture to explain the birds and the bees.
Except the baby galaxy does not look anything like the daddy galaxy. Guess the mommy Galaxy is a dirty little. ...Hole. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -4/+3That would suck to be living on a planet in one of those arms that is colliding with another galaxy.
- jason210, on 04/07/2009, -4/+1There are very very good cameras which can be placed in the chain of giant telescopes. These telescopes are usually run by grad students smoking weed and listening to pink floyd.
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