Posted on 12/03/2020 3:29:36 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years to play out. Cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, the galaxies' individual stars don't often collide though. Their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the wreckage. New star clusters and interstellar matter are jumbled and flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational forces. This Hubble close-up frame is about 50,000 light-years across at the estimated distance of the colliding galaxies. In wider-field views their suggestive visual appearance, with extended structures arcing for hundreds of thousands of light-years, gives the galaxy pair its popular name, The Antennae Galaxies.
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Man God’s got an arm that would make Hulk Hogan envious:-)
Looks like an otter wrapped in Christmas lights....eating a cheeseburger.
That is what I see too! Amazing!!
Two incredible images!
Thanks for posting.
DQotd.....Did this happen 60 million light years ago?
I know!
It’s like we have ESPN or something!
This one is trickier.
Looks like a seagull.....eating a cheeseburger.
ETL, if you are the last person to leave NYC, are you going to turn off the lights so you can see some stars before you go?
Lol!
I actually saw the Milky Way once here in NYC. It was during a blackout around 15 or so years ago. And if that wasn’t special enough, a few years later, I caught a glimpse of the northern lights from Central Park! They were faint, but I clearly see a shimmering red curtain of light with ‘spokes’. The spokes were earth’s magnetic field lines! Will never forget it.
Which one had the right of way?
Any chance one of those galaxies will collide with Uranus?
I see Moose and Cheese.
Thank you! ;-)
Thanks for posting.
(I think that its time to change the name of Uranus back to the original name Ouranos.)
Bed time!
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Beautiful. I will plug it into my Google sky app and check the area out this weekend in Central lake, MI. Yes, Antrim county.
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