Galactic collision captured in stunning detail

[soulxtc]

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have snapped the most detailed image ever of a pair of colliding galaxies, known as the Antenna galaxy.

The galaxies are the nearest merging pair to Earth, and the youngest too: the collision began about 500m years ago. As the two galaxies smash into one another, they create ideal conditions for new stars to be born. And new stars are forming in their billions.

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/10/17/antenna_galaxies.jpg

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/17/galactic_collision/

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[cjules13]

Thanks for the sweet wallpaper soul!

[boogiedan]

our universe n others r far more vast than we think
each n every day now thier finding out more n more

[knowitall]

Is it my imagination, or does this look like a profile of a human skull? Kinda weird, huh?

[Mels_Smileys45]

Isn't everything in the universe suppossed to be flying away from each other? Makes the Big bang theory seem wrong. I can't understand this. How can two galaxies head toward each other?