Posted on 08/10/2016 6:55:10 AM PDT by ThomasMore
Astronomy Picture of the Day
2016 August 10 See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.
Colliding Galaxies in Stephan's Quintet Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & Copyright: Jose Jimenez Priego
Explanation: Will either of these galaxies survive? In what might be dubbed as a semi-final round in a galactic elimination tournament, the two spirals of NGC 7318 are colliding. The featured picture was created from images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. When galaxies crash into each other, many things may happen including gravitational distortion, gas condensing to produce new episodes of star formation, and ultimately the two galaxies combining into one.
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